Besides vs Null - What's the difference?
besides | null |
(obsolete) Beside.
In addition, in addition to.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=18 April, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= Other than; except for; instead of.
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(conjunctive) also; in addition
(conjunctive) moreover; furthermore
(conjunctive) otherwise; else
(obsolete) On one side.
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 preposition besides
is (obsolete) beside.As an adverb besides
is (conjunctive) also; in addition.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.besides
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)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
August 3, 2008] - [[w:Schlock Mercenary, Schlock Mercenary]
- Captain Tagon': Wait. … Ebby, if Schlock goes out make sure he's carrying something '''besides''' those two plasma cannons.
'''Ebinoth''': When you say "' besides ," do you mean "in addition to," or "instead of"? Because one of those is a really hard sell.
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=n the end, Chelsea's organisation and discipline was rewarded but Di Matteo knows they will have to produce the same - and more besides - in the Nou Camp to confirm a meeting with either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the final in Munich next month.}}
August 3, 2008] - [[w:Schlock Mercenary, Schlock Mercenary]
- Captain Tagon': Wait. … Ebby, if Schlock goes out make sure he's carrying something '''besides''' those two plasma cannons.
'''Ebinoth''': When you say "' besides ," do you mean "in addition to," or "instead of"? Because one of those is a really hard sell.
Adverb
(-)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l)See also
* on top of thatnull
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.