Awake vs Null - What's the difference?
awake | null |
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
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 adjective awake
is not asleep; conscious.As a verb awake
is (label) to become conscious after having slept.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.awake
English
Synonyms
* (conscious) conscious, lucid, wide awakeAntonyms
* (conscious) asleep, unconsciousVerb
Synonyms
* (to gain consciousness) awaken, wake up,Antonyms
* (to gain consciousness) fall asleepDerived terms
* (l)See also
* awake to * awaken * wake * wake upReferences
* * * * * English irregular verbsnull
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.