Strengthen vs Null - What's the difference?
strengthen | null |
(lb) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,/ With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
*1851 , Anonymous,
*:A little hardship, and a little struggling with the rougher elements of life, will perchance but strengthen and increase his courage, and prepare him for the conflicts and struggles of after years.
(lb) To animate; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to fix in resolution; to hearten.
*(Bible), (w) iii. 28
*:Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
(lb) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
(lb) To grow strong or stronger.
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 verbs the difference between strengthen and null
is that strengthen is (lb) to make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce while null is to nullify; to annul.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void".strengthen
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Verb
(en verb)Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog
Antonyms
* atrophyDerived terms
* strengthenerReferences
* English ergative verbsnull
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.