Proactive vs Null - What's the difference?
proactive | null |
Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
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 an adjective proactive
is acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.proactive
English
(wikipedia proactive)Adjective
(en adjective)- We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.
Usage notes
Some consider proactive to be a buzzword, and it is associated with business-speak.The good grammar guide, by Richard Palmer, 2003,p. 157Depending on use, alternatives include active, or “show initiative” instead of “be proactive ”.
Synonyms
* anticipatory * forward-lookingAntonyms
* reactiveDerived terms
* proactively * proactivity * proactivenessReferences
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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.