Incarcerate vs Null - What's the difference?
incarcerate | null |
To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
* 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "
To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
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 a verb incarcerate
is to lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.incarcerate
English
Verb
(incarcerat)Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated , but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.
Usage notes
As a Latinate term, somewhat formal, compared to imprison.Synonyms
* imprison * jailDerived terms
* incarcerationExternal links
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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.