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Quarantine vs Null - What's the difference?

quarantine | null |

As nouns the difference between quarantine and null

is that quarantine is a desert in which christ fasted for 40 days according to the bible or quarantine can be a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed to be infected while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb quarantine

is to retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

quarantine

English

Etymology 1

Directly from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible
  • A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (wikipedia quarantine)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed to be infected.
  • Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
  • A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
  • A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.
  • (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.
  • A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
  • (computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a virus are stored.
  • Verb

    (quarantin)
  • To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
  • To put in isolation as if by quarantine
  • Derived terms
    * quarantinable

    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 ----