Brethren vs Null - What's the difference?
brethren | null |
(archaic)
(figuratively) the body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order
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 brethren and null
is that brethren is (in the plural|informal) any brethren denomination (usually preceded by "the" or "the") while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective brethren
is of or pertaining to any religious group that uses or formerly used the word "brethren", capitalized, in referring to itself or its members.brethren
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Noun
(head)Usage notes
The plural "brethren" is generally used for members of an organization, especially a religious body, whereas the plural "brothers" is used in the familial sense as well as for larger groups.See also
* Brethren * brother * sistren and nun * friar and frater or father * brotherhood, sisterhood * fraternity * siblingsnull
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.