Interrogative vs Null - What's the difference?
interrogative | null |
Asking or denoting a question; pertaining to inquiry; questioning: as, an interrogative phrase, pronoun, or point; an interrogative look or tone of voice.
* 1877 : , Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools ยง470
(grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
(rare) A question; an interrogation.
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 interrogative and null
is that interrogative is (grammar) a word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective interrogative
is asking or denoting a question; pertaining to inquiry; questioning: as, an interrogative phrase, pronoun, or point; an interrogative look or tone of voice.interrogative
English
(wikipedia interrogative)Adjective
(head)- The regular place of the interrogative word, of whatever kind, is at the beginning of the sentence, or as near it as possible.
Synonyms
* examining * inquiring * investigativeDerived terms
* interrogatively * interrogative accent * interrogative judgementCoordinate terms
* assertoric * imperativeNoun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1819 : , A Legend of Montrose , xii *: "Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the Marquis... "That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty.References
* ----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.