Haven vs Null - What's the difference?
haven | null |
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 21
, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
, work=the Guardian
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 haven and null
is that haven is a harbour or anchorage protected from the sea while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb haven
is to put into, or provide with a haven.haven
English
Noun
(en noun)- what shipping and what lading's in our haven
- their haven under the hill
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Synonyms
* refuge * sanctuary * zoarDerived terms
* tax havenAnagrams
* ----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.
