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Vouch vs Null - What's the difference?

vouch | null |

As nouns the difference between vouch and null

is that vouch is warrant; attestation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb vouch

is to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.

vouch

English

Verb

(es)
  • To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
  • To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
  • * Atterbury
  • They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
    I can vouch that the match took place.
  • To back; to support; to confirm.
  • * Milton
  • Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
  • To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
  • * Blackstone
  • He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
  • (obsolete) To call; to summon.
  • * Sir T. Elyot
  • [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
  • To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
  • To call as a witness.
  • * Dryden
  • Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
  • To assert; to aver; to declare.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Warrant; attestation.
  • 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 ----