Aboard vs Null - What's the difference?
aboard | null |
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
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Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
* 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adverb aboard
is on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.As a preposition aboard
is on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.As a verb null is
to nullify; to annul.aboard
English
Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -
Derived terms
(definitions belong in separate entries) Nautical : * fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. * haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. * keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. * , to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.References
Anagrams
* *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.