Belonging vs Null - What's the difference?
belonging | null |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to belong .
(countable) (almost always used in the plural ) Something physical that is owned.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, dated) family; relations; household
* Thackeray
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 belonging and null
is that belonging is (uncountable) the action of the verb to belong while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb belonging
is .belonging
English
(wikipedia belonging)Verb
(head)Noun
- I have a feeling of belonging in London.
- A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
- Thyself and thy belongings .
- Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
- Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons.
Synonyms
* (something physical that is owned) possession, thingnull
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.