Solitary vs Null - What's the difference?
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One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
Living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
Not much visited or frequented; remote from society; retired.
Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal.
* Bible, Lam. i. 1
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, chapter=1/1, title= Single; individual; sole.
(botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
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 solitary and null
is that solitary is one who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective solitary
is living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates.solitary
English
(wikipedia solitary)Noun
(solitaries)Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(-)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary , lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- the solitary desert
- How doth the city sit solitary , that was full of people.
Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
Derived terms
* solitariness * solitary confinement * solitary sandpiper * solitary snipe * solitary thrush * solitary tinamouAnagrams
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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.