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Mainline vs Null - What's the difference?

mainline | null |

As nouns the difference between mainline and null

is that mainline is an airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective mainline

is normal, principal or standard.

As a verb mainline

is to inject (a drug) directly into a vein.

mainline

English

Adjective

(wikipedia mainline) (-)
  • normal, principal or standard.
  • (rail transport) Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
  • (rail transport) Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
  • Synonyms

    * mainstream

    Verb

    (mainlin)
  • To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
  • Derived terms

    * mainliner * mainlining

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
  • The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
  • See also

    * main line

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----