Bankrupt vs Null - What's the difference?
bankrupt | null |
In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
Having been legally declared insolvent.
Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
* Sheridan
To force into bankruptcy.
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
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 bankrupt and null
is that bankrupt is one who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective bankrupt
is in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.As a verb bankrupt
is to force into bankruptcy.bankrupt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a bankrupt merchant
- a morally bankrupt politician
- bankrupt in gratitude
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bankruptcy * go bankruptSee also
* defunct * illiquid * insolventVerb
Noun
(en noun)- (Blackstone)
References
*null
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.