Chaste vs Null - What's the difference?
chaste | null |
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
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 an adjective chaste
is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.chaste
English
Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes
Usage notes
* Married couples are often exhorted to have "chaste sex"--compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock ).Derived terms
* chastitySee also
* pureAnagrams
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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.