Towards vs Null - What's the difference?
towards | null |
Variant of toward.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (obsolete) In the direction of something (indicated by context).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
(obsolete) Near; at hand; in state of preparation; toward.
* 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 preposition towards
is variant of toward.As an adverb towards
is (obsolete) in the direction of something (indicated by context).As an adjective towards
is (obsolete) near; at hand; in state of preparation; toward.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.towards
English
Preposition
(en-prep) (mainly in British English )Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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Synonyms
* towardUsage notes
* Although some have tried to discern a semantic distinction between the words (term) and (towards), the difference is merely dialectal. (term) is the most common form, while (toward) tends to appear only in American English.See also
* SeeAdverb
(en adverb)- Thus as he spake, lo far away they spyde / A varlet running towards hastily [...].
Adjective
(-)- We have a trifling foolish banquet / Towards .
Statistics
* English prepositionsnull
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.