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Departed vs Null - What's the difference?

departed | null |

As nouns the difference between departed and null

is that departed is (euphemistic) a dead person or persons while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb departed

is (depart).

As an adjective departed

is (euphemistic) dead.

departed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (depart)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) dead
  • Noun

    (departed)
  • (euphemistic) A dead person or persons.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1589 , year_published=1869 , author=George Puttenham , editor=Edward Arber , title=The Arte of English Poesie , page=63 citation , isbn= , passage=... and our Theologians , in stead thereof vie to make sermons, both teaching the people some good learning, and also saying well of the departed .}}

    Usage notes

    Departed'' is most commonly used in a religious setting or at a funeral. ''Deceased is commonly used in legal and journalistic settings.

    Anagrams

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    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 ----