Author vs Null - What's the difference?
author | null |
The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* 1661 , ,
* (Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784)
# (the author) I, me.
Someone who writes books for a living.
The works of an author or authors.
* 1661 , ,
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 author and null
is that author is the originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb author
is (chiefly|us) to create a work as its.author
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- The chief glory of every people arises from its authors .
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Synonyms
* (creator of a work) bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writerDerived terms
* authoressDerived terms
* authorableStatistics
* ----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.