Patrick vs Null - What's the difference?
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* 1594 William Shakespeare: Hamlet : Act I, Scene V :
* 1993 Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha : page 138:
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 proper noun patrick
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.patrick
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yes, by Saint Patrick , but there is, Horatio,
- And much offence, too.
- - Are unusual names nice?
- - Yes.
- - Then why am I called Patrick ?
- She laughed but only for a little bit. She smiled at me, I think to make sure that I knew she wasn't laughing at me.
- - Because your daddy's called Patrick , she said.
- I liked that, being called after my da.
- - There are five Patricks in our class, I said.
- - Is that right?
- - Patrick' Clarke. That's me. '''Patrick''' O'Neill. '''Patrick''' Redmond. '''Patrick''' Genocci. ' Patrick Flynn.
- - That's a lot, she said. - It's a nice name. Very dignified.
- - Three of them are called Paddy, I told her. - One Pat and one Patrick .
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.