Tract vs Null - What's the difference?
tract | null |
An area or expanse.
* Milton
* Addison
A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract .
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
* Jonathan Swift
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
* Milton
* 1843 ,
Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
(obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
(obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
(obsolete) Track; trace.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
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 tract and null
is that tract is an area or expanse while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb tract
is (obsolete) to pursue, follow; to track.tract
English
Etymology 1
From tractus, the perfect passive participle of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- an unexplored tract of sea
- the deep tract of hell
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- improved by tract of time
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in , involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time
- the tract of speech
- (Older)
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- (Dryden)
- Efface all tract of its traduction.
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From tractus , the participle stem of (etyl) trahere.Verb
(en verb)- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract ?
- (Ben Jonson)
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.