Asking vs Null - What's the difference?
asking | null |
The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
(Rare in the singular) A request, or petition.
* 2005 , The Woman's Book of Resilience: 12 Qualities to Cultivate , by Beth Miller - Page 125
* After many askings, pleadings, and episodes, all leading to nothing, she finally slumped down at the side of a well in a village where she was unknown.
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 asking and null
is that asking is the act or process of posing a question or making a request while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb asking
is .asking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- His asking was greeted with silence.
Usage notes
* Normally found in plural, or in set phrases such as for the asking .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.