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Prophecy vs Null - What's the difference?

prophecy | null |

As nouns the difference between prophecy and null

is that prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb prophecy

is .

prophecy

Noun

(prophecies)
  • A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
  • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .

    Derived terms

    * self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecy

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
  • The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
  • * Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge, page 142:
  • One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
  • * 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge, page 135:
  • The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
  • * 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge, page 85:
  • the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----