Company vs Null - What's the difference?
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A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
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, chapter=30, title= # A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
# (label) The entire crew of a ship.
# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
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, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer * {{quote-magazine
, title=Obama goes troll-hunting (label) Social visitors or companions.
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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) Companionship.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
(archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
(archaic) To associate.
* Bible, Acts i. 21
(obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
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 company and null
is that company is a team; a group of people who work together professionally while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb company
is (archaic|transitive) to accompany, keep company with.company
English
(wikipedia company)Noun
The Dust of Conflict, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Synonyms
* corporationDerived terms
* a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
- Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
- it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
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- (Bishop Hall)
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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.