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Godfather vs Null - What's the difference?

godfather | null |

As nouns the difference between godfather and null

is that godfather is a man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb godfather

is (transitive|often|figuratively) to act as godfather to.

godfather

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia godfather)
  • A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
  • A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
  • A mafia leader.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, often, figuratively) To act as godfather to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 3, author=John F. Burns, title=At Hussein Grave, Legend Lives as Fury Simmers, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The grave site, humble as it is, reflects something more than a hometown’s determination to honor a fallen son, something that seems irreducible in the politics of Iraq: the refusal of the Sunni minority, who ruled Iraq for centuries until Mr. Hussein’s overthrow, to reconcile themselves to the assumption of power by the Shiite majority who won elections godfathered by the American occupation authority. }}

    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 ----