Announce vs Null - What's the difference?
announce | null |
(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
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, title= (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
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 a verb announce
is (label) to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.announce
English
Verb
(announc)- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
Synonyms
* proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgateDerived terms
*References
* English reporting verbsnull
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.