What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Entrenched vs Null - What's the difference?

entrenched | null |

As a verb entrenched

is (entrench).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

entrenched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (entrench)

  • entrench

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
  • (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
  • The army entrenched''' its camp, or '''entrenched itself.
  • (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
  • * Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
  • For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
  • To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on'' or ''upon .
  • * John Locke
  • We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
  • To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It was this very sword entrenched it.
  • * Milton
  • His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched .

    Synonyms

    * (dig) trench * (surround with a trench) dig in * consolidate

    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 ----