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Assassinate vs Null - What's the difference?

assassinate | null |

As nouns the difference between assassinate and null

is that assassinate is (obsolete) assassination, murder while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb assassinate

is to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.

assassinate

English

Verb

  • To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
  • * , II.29:
  • The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
  • (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
  • * Dryden
  • Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
  • * Milton
  • Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
  • (obsolete) An assassin.
  • * , vol.1, III.i.2:
  • Yet again, many of them desperate hairbrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates , as being void of all fear and sorrow […].

    See also

    * Wikipedia article on Assassins * murder * regicide ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----