Privy vs Null - What's the difference?
privy | null |
Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
Secret, hidden, concealed.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
(legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
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 privy and null
is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective privy
is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.privy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The king retreated to his privy chamber.
- the privy purse
- Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
- He was privy to the discussions.
Noun
(privies)- (Burrill)
- (Wharton)
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.
