Attent vs Null - What's the difference?
attent | null |
(archaic) Attentive, heedful; intent.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
*:Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].
* Bible, 2 Chron. vi 40
* 1874 , , XIV
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 attent
is (archaic) attentive, heedful; intent.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.attent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
- All patiently awaited the event
- Without a stir or sound, as if no less
- Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent .
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.