Appertain vs Null - What's the difference?
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To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
* {{quote-book, year= 1551
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, passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
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* {{quote-book, year= 1886
, year_published= 1902
, author= (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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, title= (A Study in Scarlet)
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, chapter= On the Great Alkali Plain
, section= The Country of the Saints
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, publisher= D. Appleton and Company
, location= New York
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, page= 115
, passage= In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence—complete and heart-subduing silence.
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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 appertain
is to belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.appertain
English
Verb
(en verb)Usage notes
* Appertain' is followed by '''to''' (or formerly by '''unto''', as in ''The King James Version of The Bible'' and in the plays of Shakespeare, although ' to is used in these works as well).Synonyms
* pertainAntonyms
* be irrelevantnull
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.