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Deed vs Null - What's the difference?

deed | null |

As nouns the difference between deed and null

is that deed is an action or act; something that is done while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb deed

is (informal) to transfer real property by deed.

deed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An action or act; something that is done.
  • * Bible, Genesis xliv. 15
  • And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
  • A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  • * Spenser
  • knightly deeds
  • * Dryden
  • whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
  • Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  • I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed .
  • (legal) A legal contract showing bond.
  • I inherited the deed to the house.

    Synonyms

    * (action) act, action

    Derived terms

    * indeed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To transfer real property by deed.
  • He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
    English palindromes ----

    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 ----