Avert vs Null - What's the difference?
avert | null |
To turn aside or away.
To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
* Milton
* Prior
(archaic) To turn away.
* Thomson
(archaic) To turn away.
* Francis Bacon
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 avert
is to turn aside or away.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.avert
English
Verb
(en verb)- To avert the eyes from an object.
- How can the danger be averted ?
- To avert his ire.
- Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
- Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
- When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
Derived terms
* averter * avertressSynonyms
* (to prevent) * See alsoReferences
* "avert" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .
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.