Holiday vs Null - What's the difference?
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A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
A day declared free from work by the state or government.
A period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure.
A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university.
A period taken off work or study for travel or leisure.
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To take a period of time away from work or study.
(British) To spend a period of time for travel.
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
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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 a proper noun holiday
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.holiday
English
(wikipedia holiday)Noun
(en noun)- Today is a Wiccan holiday !
Synonyms
* (day on which a festival, etc, is traditionally observed''): feast day (''celebratory religious event ) * (day declared free from work by the government ): Bank Holiday (UK), national holiday * (period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure ): leave, time off * (period taken off work or study for travel ): vacation (US)Derived terms
* bank holiday * busman's holiday * go on holiday * high days and holidays * holiday season * holiday-maker, holidaymaker * holidayer * public holiday * summer holidayVerb
(en verb)References
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsnull
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.