Befool vs Null - What's the difference?
befool | null |
(archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).
* 1853 , , The Newcomes , ch. 40:
* 1901 , , "The Fairy of the Dawn" in The Violet Fairy Book :
* 2009 July 13, "
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 befool
is (archaic) to make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.befool
English
Verb
(en verb)- Flattery is their nature—to coax, flatter and sweetly befool some one is every woman's business.
- But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
BJP workers stage protest after leader dies in hospital," TImes of India (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- They alleged Dr Sidhu had no specialization in reducing weight and was only befooling innocent people.
Usage notes
* Although archaic in Western countries, this verb is still current in the English of South Asia.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.