Leading vs Null - What's the difference?
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
Providing guidance or direction.
Ranking first.
Occurring in advance; preceding.
An act by which one is led or guided
* {{quote-book, year=1792, author=William Carey, title=An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It has been said that we ought not to force our way, but to wait for the openings, and leadings of Providence; but it might with equal propriety be answered in this case, neither ought we to neglect embracing those openings in providence which daily present themselves to us. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1855, author=Walt Whitman, title=Leaves of Grass, chapter=, edition=
, passage=
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Edward Dowden, title=Robert Browning, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In his poetic method each writer followed the leadings of his own genius, without reference to common rules and standards; the individualism of the Revolutionary epoch asserted itself to the full. }}
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 leading and null
is that leading is an act by which one is led or guided or leading can be (typography) vertical space added between lines; line spacing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb leading
is .As an adjective leading
is providing guidance or direction.leading
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Avoiding leading questions if you really want the truth.
- He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.
- The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.
Coordinate terms
* (occurring in advance) concurrent, laggingDerived terms
* leading indicatorNoun
(en noun)citation
citation
citation
Etymology 2
From lead (chemical element).Anagrams
*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.
