Collation vs Null - What's the difference?
collation | null |
Bringing together.
# The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
# The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
# A collection, a gathering.
#* 2010 , Will Dean, The Guardian , 29 Apr 2010:
Discussion, light meal.
# (obsolete) A conference or consultation.
# (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by (John Cassian), an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
#* 1563 , John Foxe, Acts and Monuments , vol. 2, p. 55:
# A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
#* 1843 , TD Fosbroke, British Monachism , p. 52:
# The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
# Any light meal or snack.
#* 2008 , Tim Hayward, The Guardian , 13 May 08:
(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
(legal, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
(obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
* Evelyn
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 collation and null
is that collation is bringing together while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb collation
is (obsolete) to partake of a collation, or light meal.collation
English
(wikipedia collation)Noun
- (Alexander Pope)
- It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.
- A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all
- When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation , and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.
- Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation , left out by cook before retiring.
- Not by the collation of the king but by the people.
Verb
(en verb)- May 20, 1658, I collationed in Spring Garden.
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.