Highlight vs Null - What's the difference?
highlight | null |
An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
An especially significant or interesting detail or event.
(cosmetology) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
To make prominent; emphasize.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 21
, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
, work=the Guardian
To be a highlight of.
To mark (important passages of text) with a usually fluorescent marker as a means of memory retention or for later reference.
To dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest.
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 highlight and null
is that highlight is an area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb highlight
is to make prominent; emphasize.highlight
English
Alternative forms
* hilite (informal)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (especially significant or interesting detail or event) lowlightVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=The Guardian has spoken to dozens of Europeans who have left, or are planning to leave. Their stories highlight surprising new migration routes – from Lisbon to Luanda, Dublin to Perth, Barcelona to Buenos Aires – as well as more traditional migration patterns.}}
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.