Waiting vs Null - What's the difference?
waiting | null |
* 1874 , (John Fiske), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy , I. 122.
*, chapter=19
, title= (obsolete) Watching.
The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
* 1876 , , The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
Attendance, service.
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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 waiting and null
is that waiting is (obsolete) watching while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb waiting
is .waiting
English
(wikipedia waiting)Verb
(head)- In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
Derived terms
* waiting game * waiting roomNoun
- There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
- Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
Derived terms
* in waitingReferences
*Statistics
*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.