Somewhat vs Null - What's the difference?
somewhat | null |
To a limited extent or degree.
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(archaic) Something.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
* Robert Trail
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
* Grew
* Dryden
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
* Tennyson
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 somewhat and null
is that somewhat is more or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb somewhat
is to a limited extent or degree.As a pronoun somewhat
is (archaic) something.somewhat
English
Alternative forms
* (qualifier) summat (and variants listed there)Adverb
(-)See also
* slightlyPronoun
(English Pronouns)- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
- But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
- Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
Noun
(en noun)- These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
- Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
- Here come those that worship me. / They think that I am somewhat .
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.