Posthaste vs Null - What's the difference?
posthaste | null |
quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
* 1946 — , Ch. 17
* 1602 : , act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
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 posthaste and null
is that posthaste is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb posthaste
is quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.posthaste
English
Alternative forms
* post-haste, post hasteAdverb
(-)- It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste .
- "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.
Synonyms
* (quickly) ASAP, quickly * See alsoNoun
(-)- ''"And this, I take it,
- ''Is the main motive of our preparations
- ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
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.