Sometimes vs Null - What's the difference?
sometimes | null |
On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
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, title= (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
* (William Shakespeare)
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*, II.3.7:
(obsolete) former; sometime
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 an adverb sometimes
is on certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.As an adjective sometimes
is (obsolete) former; sometime.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sometimes
English
Adverb
(-)- It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.
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- That fair and warlike form / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometimes march.
- For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
- they detract, scoffe, and raile (saith one), and bark at me on every side; but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu ; I lie still, and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.
Synonyms
* at one time or another * at times * every so often * from time to time * occasionally * once in a whileSee also
* sometimeAdjective
(-)- Thy sometimes brother's wife. — Shakespeare.
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.