Underline vs Null - What's the difference?
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A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or (in electronic documents) to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or that it acts as a hyperlink.
The character .
To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore
(figuratively) To emphasise or stress something
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(obsolete) To influence secretly.
Passing under a railway line.
* 1950 , Leonora Fry, C. W. Huxtable, Get to know: British railways (page 26)
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 underline and null
is that underline is a line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or (in electronic documents) to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or that it acts as a hyperlink while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb underline
is to draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore.As an adjective underline
is passing under a railway line.underline
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(underlin)citation, page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}
- By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta. — Sir H. Wotton.
Adjective
(-)- Just as it was sometimes necessary to lower the road to take it beneath an underline bridge, so in this case it might be necessary to raise it.
See also
* (wikipedia) (typography marks) ----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.