Danger vs Null - What's the difference?
danger | null |
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(obsolete) Liability.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
Exposure to liable harm.
An instance or cause of liable harm.
Mischief.
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
* Oxford English Dictionary
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 danger and null
is that danger is ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As verbs the difference between danger and null
is that danger is to claim liability while null is to nullify; to annul.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.danger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).
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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.
