Abstinent vs Null - What's the difference?
abstinent | null |
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
One who abstains; a faster.
(usually, capitalized, religion, historical) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and believed in abstinence towards meat and sex.
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 nouns the difference between abstinent and null
is that abstinent is (usually|capitalized|religion|historical) one of a sect who appeared in france and spain in the 3rd century, and believed in abstinence towards meat and sex while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.abstinent
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the late 14th century. From (etyl), from (etyl) abstinent, from (etyl) . * See abstainAdjective
(en adjective)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) abstinent (adjective form).Noun
(en noun)References
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.