Alike vs Null - What's the difference?
alike | null |
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
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 alike
is having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.As an adverb alike
is in the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.alike
English
Alternative forms
* yliche (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The twins were alike .
Derived terms
* alikenessAdverb
(en adverb)Derived terms
* share and share alikeAnagrams
* *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.