Obtained vs Null - What's the difference?
obtained | null |
(obtain)
To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), (Mansfield Park) :
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, title= (obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
* 1722 , (Daniel Defoe), (Colonel Jack) :
(obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.2:
* 1701 , (Jonathan Swift), Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome :
(obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , Book I:
To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.
* 1908 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel) , ,
* 1992 , (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash) , Bantam Spectra, p. 460,
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 a verb obtained
is (obtain).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.obtained
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(en verb)- And a certayne ruler axed him: sayinge: Goode Master: what ought I to do, to obtaine eternall lyfe?
- Julia was quite as eager for novelty and pleasure as Maria, though she might not have struggled through so much to obtain them, and could better bear a subordinate situation.
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- he was condemned to die for the felony, and being so well known for an old offender, had certainly died, but the merchant, upon his earnest application, had obtained that he should be transported, on condition that he restored all the rest of his bills, which he had done accordingly.
- “O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain [...].”
- This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained , and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth.
- His mother then is mortal, but his Sire / He who obtains the monarchy of Heav'n, / And what will he not do to advance his Son?
- Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain ; for the act in question was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists.
- But the hostage situation no longer obtains , and so Uncle Enzo feels it important to stop Rife now,
null
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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.