Punishment vs Null - What's the difference?
punishment | null |
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
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 punishment and null
is that punishment is the act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.punishment
English
Noun
(en noun)- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms
* castigation * punition * beatingAntonyms
* rewardHyponyms
* retributionDerived terms
* corporal punishment * mirror punishment * (l)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.