Dispense vs Null - What's the difference?
dispense | null |
To issue, distribute, or put out.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
* Dryden
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
* , II.34:
* Macaulay
* Johnson
(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
* Spenser
* Gower
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
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 a verb dispense
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dispense
English
Verb
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- to dispense justice
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
- After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Derived terms
* dispensary * dispenserNoun
(en noun)- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].
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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.