Decider vs Null - What's the difference?
decider | null |
A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
* 1667 , anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
* 1758 , Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey , Philadelphia, p. 680:
* 1885 , Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica , vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
* 1967 , , "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:
* 2006 April 18, , White House press conference, Washington, DC:
(chiefly, British, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
* 2007 Feb 22 (action)'',
* 2007 Feb. 10 (event)'',
(computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
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 decider and null
is that decider is a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.decider
English
Noun
(en noun)- This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
- The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
- The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider " (Entschneider ).
- Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
- "I'm the decider , and I decide what is best."
Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic''Guardian Sport :
- . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider .
France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, ''Guardian Sport :
- France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.
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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.