Anyway vs Null - What's the difference?
anyway | null |
(obsolete) In any way.
*, II.2.5:
(conjunctive) ; anyhow.
(speech act) (Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement). See anyhow.
* 1962 , (Bob Dylan),
(speech act)
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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 an adverb anyway
is (obsolete) in any way.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.anyway
English
Adverb
(-)- He that sleeps in the day-time, or is in suspense, fear, anyway troubled in mind, or goes to bed upon a full stomach, may never hope for quiet rest in the night […].
- He didn't enjoy washing his car, but it was so dirty that he did it anyway .
- I don't think that's true. I haven't found any evidence, anyway .
- But I wish there were somethin' you would do or say / To try and make me change my mind and stay / We never did too much talkin' anyway / Don't think twice, it's all right.
Synonyms
* anywisenull
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.