Mar 28, 2011 · Null and void became a phrase of their own because the two synonyms from Latin were imported at different times into "ordinary" English. I quote from David Melinkoff's The Language of …

Are nil and null interchangeable? For example, My bank a/c has a nil balance. My bank a/c has a null balance.

May 25, 2017 · Null and void, to have and to hold, to cease and desist are all examples of this tendency towards parallel construction in legal writing. The words "valid" and "invalid" refer to a wholly different …

Sep 17, 2010 · A check with VOID written on it will not be processed. The difference may be subtle, but there is a difference. 0 represents an integer in the set of all integers (called the set Z in …

Null is not just a computer science word. It's used in other context, for instance the stock phrase "null and void" - meaning that the referrent no longer has any effect. Nor is NULL in CS necessarily zero: …

Nov 15, 2013 · I am looking for an abbreviation for the word "current" to match the similar abbreviation "prev" for "previous" (it is being used specifically in the context of a sequence of items: previous --> cu...

The phrase, with variants, predates Batman: The Animated Series (1992 to 1995). The earliest result in Google Books is a snippet of Me, Minsky & Max by Bruce Pollock (Page 221, 1978): This whole …

Nov 28, 2015 · The law for some reason has more than its share of redundant terminology - law and order, cease and desist, null and void, without let or hindrance, and many more.

Mar 19, 2013 · Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered). Before that, it …

Context: I'm translating a room reservation software system, where you can set whether a room in a building is bookable in a selection field named 'bookability' with choices yes and no (and null/void).