Affront vs Null - What's the difference?
affront | null |
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
* Addison
To meet defiantly; to confront.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
* Holland
* Shakespeare
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
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 affront and null
is that affront is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.affront
English
(wikipedia affront)Verb
(en verb)- How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
- to affront death
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
- All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Such behavior is an affront to society.
Synonyms
* See alsonull
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.