Nowaday vs Null - What's the difference?
nowaday | null |
Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
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*2005 , Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub, Yankl Salant, Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets :
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(lb) The present period; contemporary times.
* 1987 , W.J.Aerts, "Appendix: The Latin-Greek Wordlist in MS 236 of the Municipal Library of Avranches, FOL. 97v", Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986 edited by Reginald Allen Brown, Boydell & Brewer (ISBN 9780851154763), page 69
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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 nowaday and null
is that nowaday is (lb) the present period; contemporary times while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective nowaday
is existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.As an adverb nowaday
is .nowaday
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Adjective
(-)- The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow.
Synonyms
* (from the present time) current, presentAdverb
(-)Usage notes
* Principally used by non-native speakers and in reported speech in fiction. It is also an archaic form.Noun
- If so, it should be noted that ?????????? does not exist in nowaday's South Italian, and, probably, did not either in medieval South Italian (though it is not excluded, of course, because during the presence of the Byzantines in (Southern) Italy a greater influence of the Byzantine koine of that time can be postulated).
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.