Commences vs Null - What's the difference?
commences | null |
(commence)
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To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
* , chapter=4
, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
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 verb commences
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.commences
English
Verb
(head)commence
English
Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
Antonyms
* cease * stopnull
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.