Akin vs Null - What's the difference?
akin | null |
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
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 adjective akin
is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.akin
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
Usage notes
* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.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.