Sojourn vs Null - What's the difference?
sojourn | null |
A short stay somewhere.
* 2006 , Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)
A temporary residence.
To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
* Bible, Genesis xii. 30
* Hayward
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 sojourn and null
is that sojourn is a short stay somewhere while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sojourn
is to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.sojourn
English
Noun
(en noun)- The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues
- Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn . — Milton.
Verb
- Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
- The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.
Conjugation
* The archaic third-person singular present active indicative form sojourneth is also attested.References
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.