Await vs Null - What's the difference?
await | null |
(formal) To wait for.
* Milton
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To expect.
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
* Milton
To wait on, serve or attend.
To watch, observe.
To wait (on or upon).
To wait; to stay in waiting.
(label) A waiting for; ambush.
(label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
*, Book VII:
*:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
*:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
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 await and null
is that await is (label) a waiting for; ambush while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb await
is (formal) to wait for.await
English
Verb
(en verb)- Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
- O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
Synonyms
* (wait for) wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound)Usage notes
* As await means to wait for'', it is not followed by "for". ''*I am awaiting for your reply is therefore incorrect.Noun
(en noun)References
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.