Capital vs Null - What's the difference?
capital | null |
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
(uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
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, title= (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
* 2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
of prime importance
* Atterbury
* I. Taylor
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
(British, dated) excellent
Involving punishment by death.
* Jonathan Swift
* Milton
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 517:
uppercase
Of or relating to the head.
* Milton
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 capital and null
is that capital is capital while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.capital
English
(wikipedia capital)Alternative forms
* capitall (obsolete)Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Hollywood is the film capital', New York the theater '''capital''', Las Vegas the gambling ' capital .
Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.Synonyms
* (An uppercase letter) caps (in the plural), majusculeAntonyms
* (An uppercase letter) minusculeAdjective
(-)- a capital article in religion
- whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
- London and Paris are capital cities.
- That is a capital idea!
- many crimes that are capital among us
- to put to death a capital offender
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
Antonyms
* (uppercase) lower-caseDerived terms
* block capitals * capital asset * capital goods * capitalism * capital punishment * capital ship * economic capital * financial capital * human capital * personal capital * real capital * social capitalReferences
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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.