Denizen vs Null - What's the difference?
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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* Sir Walter Scott
One who frequents a place.
* {{quote-news, author=(Russell Brand), title=Let’s kick cold profiteering out of football, along with racism, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015
, passage=As a fan of West Ham United I’m always looking to legitimise my dislike of Chelsea FC. And on first viewing, this week’s jarring retro-Métro-racism seems like a good reason to condemn the denizens of Stamford Bridge.}}
(British, obsolete) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
* 1765 , (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
(British) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
* Dryden
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
* J. D. Hooker
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 denizen and null
is that denizen is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb denizen
is (british) to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.denizen
English
(wikipedia denizen)Noun
(en noun)- The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Suddenly these cries ceased, and the silence of death reigned throughout the jungle.
- Denizens of their own free, independent state.
- The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
citation
- A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.''
- Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
- The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
Usage notes
As a British legal category, used between 13th and 19th century (mentioned but not used in 20th century), made obsolete by naturalisation – see (denization).Synonyms
* (inhabitant of a place) inhabitant, native, resident * (one who frequents a place) regularDerived terms
* denizationVerb
(en verb)- He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
- As soon as denizened , they domineer.
- There were a few islets in the sand and these were at once denizened by various weeds.
null
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.