Heir vs Null - What's the difference?
heir | null |
Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I am my father's heir and only son.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir .}}
One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:And I his heir in misery alone.
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*:"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came"
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=12, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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 heir and null
is that heir is someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.heir
English
Noun
(en noun) (Inheritance)What a waste, passage=India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs .}}
Anagrams
* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----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.