Avow vs Null - What's the difference?
avow | null |
To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
* 1858 , Henry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson (volume 1, page 461)
To bind or devote by a vow.
(legal) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
(obsolete) avowal
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 avow and null
is that avow is (obsolete) avowal while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb avow
is to declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.avow
English
Verb
(en verb)- in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.
- (Wyclif)
- (Blackstone)
Antonyms
* disavowNoun
- (Dryden)
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* * *null
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.