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Concessionary vs Null - What's the difference?

concessionary | null |

As nouns the difference between concessionary and null

is that concessionary is one who owns a concession or a franchise while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective concessionary

is relating to concessions or franchises.

concessionary

English

Noun

(concessionaries)
  • one who owns a concession or a franchise
  • * 1890, Benjamin Harrison, State of the Union Address
  • That Government seized the Delagoa Bay Railway, which was constructed under a concession granted to an American citizen, and at the same time annulled the charter. The concessionary , who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • relating to concessions or franchises
  • making concessions or compromises
  • * 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (The New Generation)
  • I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary , not Conservative principles.

    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 ----