Consult vs Null - What's the difference?
consult | null |
(obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
(obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
(obsolete): Agreement; concert.
(US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
To advise or offer expertise.
To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
(obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
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 consult and null
is that consult is (obsolete): the act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb consult
is to seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.consult
English
Alternative forms
* consultation (Only noun form in UK)Noun
(en noun)- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -.
- A consult of coquettes. -.
Usage notes
* The noun consult is avoided in British English, favoring consultation instead. In AmE, they are merely synonyms.Synonyms
* consultationVerb
(en verb)- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -
- All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - .
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult''' ... ; they were content to '''consult libraries. - .
- We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.
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* * English heteronymsnull
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.