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Counseled vs Null - What's the difference?

counseled | null |

As verbs the difference between counseled and null

is that counseled is past tense of counsel while null is to nullify; to annul.

As a noun null is

a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

counseled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (counsel)

  • counsel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 1
  • All the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
  • Exercise of judgment; prudence.
  • * Hooker
  • They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
  • Advice; guidance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I like thy counsel ; well hast thou advised.
  • * Tennyson
  • It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
  • Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxiii. 11
  • The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xii. 5
  • The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
  • (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
  • * Gower
  • thilke lord to whom no counsel may be hid
  • A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To give advice, especially professional advice.
  • The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
    Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
  • To recommend
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * keep one's counsel * keep one's own counsel

    See also

    * council

    Anagrams

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    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 ----