Here vs Null - What's the difference?
here | null |
(label) In, on, or at this place.
* 1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), , VII,
* 2008 , (Omar Khadr), ,
(label) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
* 1891 , (Charlotte Perkins Gilman), ,
(label) In this context.
* 1872 May, (Edward Burnett Tylor), '', published in ''(Popular Science Monthly) , Volume 1,
* 1904 January 15, (William James), (The Chicago School)'', published in ''(Psychological Bulletin) , 1.1, pages 1-5,
At this point in the argument or narration.
* 1796 , (w), ,
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= (abstract) This place; this location.
(abstract) This time, the present situation.
An army, host.
A hostile force.
(Anglo-Saxon) An invading army, either that of the enemy, or the national troops serving abroad. Compare (l).
An enemy, individual enemy.
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 here and null
is that here is a time while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.here
English
(wikipedia here)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adverb
(-)- Dark house, by which once more I stand / Here in the long unlovely street,
- The Canadian visitor stated, “I’m not here' to help you. I’m not '''here''' to do anything for you. I’m just ' here to get information.”
- He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get.
- The two great generalizations which the veteran Belgian astronomer has brought to bear on physiological and mental science, and which it is proposed to describe popularly here , may be briefly defined:
- The briefest characterization is all that will be attempted here .
- Here , perhaps I ought to stop.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=“And drove away—away.” Sophia broke down here . Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
Derived terms
* hereabout * hereafter * hereaway * hereby * herein * hereinabove * hereinafter * hereinbefore * hereinbelow * hereof * hereon * hereto * heretofore * hereunder * hereunto * hereupon * herewithNoun
(-)- An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
- Here in history, we are less diligent about quashing monopolies.
Quotations
* * *See also
* hence * here- * hereabouts * hither * thereEtymology 2
From Old (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)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.