Summon vs Null - What's the difference?
summon | null |
To call people together; to convene.
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
To ask someone to come; to send for.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
(legal) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
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 summon and null
is that summon is call, command, order while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb summon
is to call people together; to convene.summon
English
(wikipedia summon)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
Derived terms
* summons * summon upnull
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.