Squander vs Null - What's the difference?
squander | null |
To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
* 1746 , Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
* {{quote-news
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(obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
* Dryden
To wander at random; to scatter.
* 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 squander
is to waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.squander
English
Verb
(en verb)Agribusiness Management
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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- Our squandered troops he rallies.
- The wise man's folly is anatomized / Even by squandering glances of the fool.
Usage notes
Squander implies starting with many resources, such as great wealth, and then wasting them (using them up to little purpose or little effect), often ending with little. Particularly used in phrases such as “squander an opportunity” or “squander an inheritance”. It may be used even if one starts with little, though usually in some construction such as “squander what little he had”.Synonyms
* waste, splurge * ducks and drakes * throw awayReferences
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.