Tonight vs Null - What's the difference?
tonight | null |
During the night following the current day.
(obsolete) Last night.
* 1596 , , IV. ii. 165:
* 1599 , , III. iii. 1:
The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
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 tonight and null
is that tonight is the nighttime of the current day or date; this night while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb tonight
is during the night following the current day.tonight
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * tonite (qualifier)Adverb
(-)- I want to party tonight !
- I had a wonderful time with you tonight .
- Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury, / With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire, / And others more, going to seek the grave / Of Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night / On your suggestion.
- I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar, / And things unluckily charge my fantasy;
Noun
(en noun)- Tonight is the night.
- I have high hopes for tonight .
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.