Subsidiary vs Null - What's the difference?
subsidiary | null |
Auxiliary or supplemental.
* (John Florio) (1553-1625)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
Secondary or subordinate.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
Of, or relating to a subsidy.
* (1805-1875)
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
(music) a subordinate theme
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 subsidiary and null
is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective subsidiary
is auxiliary or supplemental.subsidiary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
George Goodchild
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
Noun
(subsidiaries)null
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.