When vs Null - What's the difference?
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(interrogative) (Used to introduce questions about time).
(Used to introduce indirect questions about time).
At an earlier and less prosperous time.
At what time.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when , of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
At such time as.
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At a time in the past.
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*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
, title= (interrogative) What time; which time
The time.
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 when and null
is that when is the time while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb when
is (interrogative) (used to introduce questions about time).As a conjunction when
is at what time.As a pronoun when
is (interrogative) what time; which time.As an interjection when
is that's enough,.when
English
(wikipedia when)Adverb
(-)- When will they arrive ?
- Do you know when they arrived?
- Do you know when they will arrive?
- Do you know when they arrive?
- He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when .
Conjunction
(missing senses) (English Conjunctions)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=The Baggies had offered little threat until the 28th minute, but when their first chance came it was a clear one.}}
Derived terms
* whenwePronoun
(English Pronouns)- Since when do I need your permission?
Noun
(en noun)- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when , the where, the why and the how .
See also
* since whenDerived terms
* wheneverStatistics
*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.