Metastasized vs Null - What's the difference?
metastasized | null |
(metastasize)
(medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
* 1989 , Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye :
* 2001 , David Lodge, Thinks... :
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 metastasized
is (metastasize).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.metastasized
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Verb
(head)metastasize
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Alternative forms
* metastasiseVerb
(metastasiz)- On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes .
- ‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’
null
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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.