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thanks | null |

As nouns the difference between thanks and null

is that thanks is (obsolete) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an interjection thanks

is used to express appreciation or gratitude.

As a verb thanks

is (thank).

thanks

English

Alternative forms

* thanx,

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • Used to express appreciation or gratitude.
  • Could you give me a hand, please?'' — Yes, sure. — ''Thanks .
  • * ~1595 , Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, scene 1
  • Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!

    Derived terms

    * thanks a lot * thanks for nothing * thanks for your help

    Noun

  • (obsolete) English plurals
  • (plurale tantum) An expression of gratitude.
  • After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is all the thanks I get?
  • Grateful feelings or thoughts.
  • Derived terms

    * thanks to

    Verb

    (head)
  • (thank)
  • English phrasebook

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----