Assurance vs Null - What's the difference?
assurance | null |
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
*(w) xvii. 31.
*:Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
* (1800-1859)
*:Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
*(w) x. 22.
*:Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:Brave men meet danger with assurance .
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance .
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.His air, of self-confident assurance , seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
(lb) Betrothal; affiance.
Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
(lb) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. ((William Blackstone) (1723-1780))
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 assurance and null
is that assurance is the act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.assurance
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Alternative forms
* assuraunceNoun
(en noun)References
*Anagrams
* ----null
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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.