Harken vs Null - What's the difference?
harken | null |
‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
* 1833 :
* 1883:
* 1942 ,
(figuratively, US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
* 1994 , David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition , page 4
* 2005 , Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture , page 48
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 harken and null
is that harken is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.harken
English
Verb
(en verb)- Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken . But there was no unusual sound...
- ... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:
- The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college
- Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.
Usage notes
The bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.References
* * Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995,p. 497* “
Hark/Hearken”, Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November, 2008)
Anagrams
* ----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.