Recourse vs Null - What's the difference?
recourse | null |
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
* Spenser
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
* (rfdate) Foxe:
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
* (Bishop Hacket)
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 recourse and null
is that recourse is the act of seeking assistance or advice while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb recourse
is (obsolete) to return; to recur.recourse
English
Noun
- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
- swift recourse of flushing blood
- Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
- Give me recourse to him.
Derived terms
* legal recourseVerb
(recours)- The flame departing and recoursing .
Anagrams
* resourcenull
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.