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Theodore vs Null - What's the difference?

theodore | null |

As a proper noun theodore

is , cognate to theodore.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

theodore

English

Proper noun

(wikipedia Theodore) (en proper noun)
  • ; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors and a president.
  • * 1820 , Names , The Indicator, No. XVIII, February 9th, 1820:
  • It is as well certainly not to call a parcel of idle and ragged young rogues by the titles of Augustus, Orlando, and Theodore : nor does it sound very fitting and heroical to hear a father cry out pompously to his little boy, as we did once, - "You, Sir, there, - Maximilian,- come out of the gutter."
  • * 2010 (w, Maggie O'Farrell), The Hand That First Held Mine , Headline, ISBN 9780755308453, page 234:
  • *:'Perfect. What name are we going to give him?'
  • *:'Theo.'
  • *:'Oh.'
  • *:'As in Theodore .'
  • *:'Isn't that rather a...?' He stopped. Smiled at her again. 'Why Theodore ?'
  • *:'I like it. And it suits him. Maybe because it contains the sound 'adore'.'
  • 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 ----