Enough vs Null - What's the difference?
enough | null |
Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
* Bible, (Gospel of Luke) xv. 17
* , chapter=16
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, chapter=15 Sufficiently.
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*, chapter=5
, title= Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very .
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I know you well enough ; you are Signior Antonio.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.
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 determiner enough
is sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.As an adverb enough
is sufficiently.As a pronoun enough
is a sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.As an interjection enough
is stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.As a verb null is
to nullify; to annul.enough
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Determiner
(en determiner)- How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough ! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
Adverb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
Usage notes
* As an adverb, enough always follows the verb it qualifies.Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- I have enough to keep me going .
Interjection
- Enough !
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.