Satisfy vs Null - What's the difference?
satisfy | null |
To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
* Milton
To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
(dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
* Atterbury
* 1851 ,
To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
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 a verb satisfy
is to do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.satisfy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I'm not satisfied with the quality of the food here.
- Death shall with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
- The complex numbers satisfy .
- The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying .
- I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
- to satisfy a creditor
- to satisfy a claim or an execution
Antonyms
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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.