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Ways vs Null - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ways and null

is that ways is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ways

English

Noun

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  • English plurals
  • (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1912 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Fredrick A. Talbot , title=Steamship Conquest of the World , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=36 , passage= By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time. }}
  • (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
  • (informal) A distance.
  • * 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416533249, page 41,
  • “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”
    “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.

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    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 ----