Worsen vs Null - What's the difference?
worsen | null |
To make worse; to impair.
* The global warming has worsened the weather.
* Southey
To become worse; to get worse.
* The weather has worsened .
(obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.
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 verb worsen
is to make worse; to impair.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.worsen
English
Verb
(en verb)- It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened .
Synonyms
* deteriorateAntonyms
* improve * ameliorateAnagrams
* English ergative verbsnull
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.