Bloviate vs Null - What's the difference?
bloviate | null |
(US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
* 1845 , Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio, 14 Oct. 3/1:
*:Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.
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 bloviate
is (us) to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bloviate
English
Verb
(bloviat)Usage notes
Particularly used of politicians, bloviate has passed in and out of fashion over the centuries, falling out of fashion by end of 19th century, but was popularized in the early 1920s with reference to presidentSynonyms
* See also .Derived terms
* bloviation * bloviatorSee also
* windbag *References
134–135, ISBN 978-0-618-44374-1
Anagrams
* (l) Fanciful 19th century American coinagesnull
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.