Seeking vs Null - What's the difference?
seeking | null |
The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
* 1873 , Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)
(in combination) that seeks something specified
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
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 seeking and null
is that seeking is the act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective seeking
is (in combination) that seeks something specified.As a verb seeking
is .seeking
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* heat-seeking * self-seekingVerb
(head)- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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.