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Colleague vs Null - What's the difference?

colleague | null |

As nouns the difference between colleague and null

is that colleague is a fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As verbs the difference between colleague and null

is that colleague is to unite or associate with another or with others while null is to nullify; to annul.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

colleague

English

Noun

(wikipedia colleague) (en noun)
  • A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
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    Synonyms

    * coworker * workmate * See also

    See also

    Do not confuse with: * college * collage

    Verb

    (colleagu)
  • To unite or associate with another or with others.
  • Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father.'' - ''Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)

    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 ----