Sober vs Null - What's the difference?
sober | null |
not drunk; not intoxicated
not given to excessive drinking of alcohol
* Book of Common Prayer
moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled
* Dryden
* 2005 , .
dull; not bright or colorful
* Milton
subdued; solemn; grave
* Prior
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To make or become sober.
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
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 sober and null
is that sober is friend while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sober
English
Adjective
(er)- a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name
- No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
- Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
- Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
- What parts gay France from sober Spain?
- See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (not drunk) drunkSee also
* teetotallerVerb
(en verb)- There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
- ''It took him hours to sober up .
Anagrams
* ----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.