Berth vs Null - What's the difference?
berth | null |
A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth .)
A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
(nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
A job or position, especially on a ship.
(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
(sports) position on the field of play
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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 berth and null
is that berth is a fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb berth
is to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.berth
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
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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.