Whom vs Null - What's the difference?
whom | null |
What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.
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What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a preposition.
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Him; her; them (used as a relative pronoun to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.)
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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 a pronoun whom
is what person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.whom
English
(wikipedia whom)Alternative forms
* whome (obsolete)Pronoun
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George Goodchild
Usage notes
(Usage examples) Subject (always who ): : Who ate my sandwich? : There is the thief who ate my sandwich. :: i.e. The thief ate my sandwich. Direct object: : Who(m) did you see? : I saw an old friend who(m) I had not seen for years. :: i.e. I saw an old friend . Indirect object: : Who(m) are you giving your apple to? : She is the angel who(m) I'm giving my apple to. :: or : To whom are you giving your apple?'' (fronted prepositional phrase, almost always ''whom ) : She is the angel to whom I'm giving my apple. :: i.e. I'm giving my apple to her .Derived terms
* to whom it may concern * to whom this may concern * whomever * whom'renull
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.