Behest vs Null - What's the difference?
behest | null |
A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 278:
* Sir Walter Scott
* 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
* 2009 , “What a waste”, The Economist , 15 Oct 2009:
* 2011 , Owen Gibson, The Guardian , 24 Mar 2011:
A vow; a promise.
* Paston
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 behest and null
is that behest is a command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb behest
is (obsolete) to promise; vow.behest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Paul did not dare pronounce, let matters rest, / His master having given him no behest .
- to do his master's high behest
- And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition.
- the House of Representatives will try to water down even this feeble effort at the behest of the unions whose members enjoy some of the most lavish policies.
- The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is to meet with the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, at the behest of the Premier League in a bid to resolve their long-running feud.
- The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.
Anagrams
*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.