Foreign vs Null - What's the difference?
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Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
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Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
Alien; strange.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jonathan Swift)
(label) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
(informal) foreigner
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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 foreign and null
is that foreign is (informal) foreigner while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective foreign
is located outside a country or place, especially one's own.foreign
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- foreign''' markets''; '''''foreign soil
- foreign''' car''; '''''foreign''' word''; '''''foreign''' citizen''; '''''foreign trade
citation, passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}
Guardian warriors and golden eggs, passage=Foreign' companies love to complain about doing business in China.
- foreign''' policy''; '''''foreign navies
- foreign''' body''; '''''foreign''' substance''; '''''foreign''' gene''; '''''foreign species
- It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
- This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.
- Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.
Synonyms
* (from a different country) overseas, international * (strange) alien, fremd * (in a place where it does not belong) extraneousAntonyms
* (from a different country) domestic * (not characteristic) native * (native to an area) indigenousDerived terms
{{der3, foreign body , foreign correspondent , foreign country , , foreign debt , foreign exchange , foreignize , foreignization , foreign key , foreignness , foreigner , foreign tongue , foreign policy , Foreign Office}}Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns . }}
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.