Defence vs Null - What's the difference?
defence | null |
The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
* Shakespeare
Something used to oppose attack(s).
* 1592—1609 , , Sonnet XII:
An argument in support or justification of something.
* 1592—1609 , , Sonnet LXXXIX:
A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) To furnish with defences; to fortify.
* Hales:
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 defence and null
is that defence is the action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb defence
is (obsolete|transitive) to furnish with defences; to fortify.defence
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Alternative forms
* defense (US )Noun
(en noun)- In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh / The enemy more mighty than he seems.
- And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
- Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
- Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
- Against thy reasons making no defence .
- Department of Defence
- Severe defences against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* offence (Commonwealth), offense (US)Derived terms
* antidefence, antidefense * ecodefence, ecodefense * Nuremberg defence, Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensivenessVerb
(defenc)- Better manned and more strongly defenced .
null
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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.