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compatriot | null |

As nouns the difference between compatriot and null

is that compatriot is somebody from one's own country while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective compatriot

is of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.

compatriot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Somebody from one's own country.
  • * Palfrey
  • the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.}}

    Synonyms

    * fellow citizen * fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
  • * Thomson
  • She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, / Compatriot , zealous, hospitable, kind.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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 ----