Eject vs Null - What's the difference?
eject | null |
To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
* 2012 , August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited,
To throw out or remove forcefully.
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(US) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
To project oneself from an aircraft.
To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
To come out of a machine.
A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
(psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
English ergative verbs
English heteronyms
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 eject and null
is that eject is a button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine or eject can be (psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb eject
is to compel (a person or persons) to leave.eject
English
Usage notes
The physiological sense always uses pronunciation stressed on the first syllable (), either pronunciation is used for the other senses.Verb
(en verb)Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'
- Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
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Synonyms
* boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, toss, turf out, oust * (throw out forcefully) throw out * send off (UK ) * * (project oneself from an aircraft) bail out * (come out of a machine) come outDerived terms
* ejectable * ejectorNoun
eject (not used in the plural )- When the tape stops, press eject.
Usage notes
* Eject in this sense is used without an article, and is often capitalised ("press EJECT") as it is marked on many such buttons, or enclosed in quotation marks ("press 'eject'").Noun
(en noun)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.