Signify vs Null - What's the difference?
signify | null |
To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
To mean; to betoken.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
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 signify
is to give (something) a meaning or an importance.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.signify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
- The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
- A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
Synonyms
* (l) * (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.