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Aside vs Null - What's the difference?

aside | null |

As nouns the difference between aside and null

is that aside is an incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adverb aside

is to or on one side so as to be out of the way.

aside

English

Adverb

(-)
  • To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
  • * Bible, 2 (w) iv. 4
  • Thou shalt set aside that which is full.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • But soft! but soft! aside : here comes the king.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • The flames were blown aside .
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Here was my chance. I took the old man aside , and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.}}
  • *
  • *:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • Derived terms

    * aside from * put aside * set aside * step aside

    Postposition

    (head)
  • aside from
  • Joking aside .
    Unusual circumstances aside .
  • *{{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside , the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}

    Derived terms

    * all kidding aside

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity.
  • (theatre) A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.
  • Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    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 ----