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Cashier vs Null - What's the difference?

cashier | null |

As nouns the difference between cashier and null

is that cashier is one who works at a till or receives payments while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb cashier

is to dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.

cashier

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) casseren.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
  • *, II.34:
  • His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia , he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it.
  • * 1968 , , “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):
  • They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered , if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.510:
  • The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.
  • * 2012 , (Jonathan Keates), ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review , 402:
  • Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) caissier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who works at a till or receives payments.
  • Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
  • Anagrams

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----