Comestible vs Null - What's the difference?
comestible | null |
Suitable to be eaten; edible.
* Sir T. Elyot
* 1972 March 6, Richard W. Langer, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme: Growing Your Own Fresh Herbs'', '' ,
* 1993 , , Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring , 2000,
* 2007 , Rene Simo, The Little Gringo: Love and Martyrdom in Cameroon ,
(chiefly, in the plural) Anything that can be eaten; food.
* 1910 , Frank Richards, The Greyfriar?s Picnic ,
* 1986 February, Joan Fox, Restaurants: Just Like Mama Used to Cook'', '' ,
* June 4th, 1989 , “Pete Granger” (username),
* 2003 , Priscilla Boniface, Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink ,
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 comestible and null
is that comestible is (chiefly|in the plural) anything that can be eaten; food while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective comestible
is suitable to be eaten; edible.comestible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some herbs are most comestible .
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- What with freeze-dried chives costing $96 a pound, and those snipped fresh for the omelette from the potted garden on the kitchen ledge almost free, the bountiful begonia has given way in many apartments to more comestible greenery.
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- Lestrade raised his mug in a loyal toast while Lady Pauline saw to the more comestible sort for breakfast.
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- From the palm nut we derive palm oil, the most comestible oil in our country and in the whole of Africa.
Usage notes
Relatively formal; edible is the usual term, while eatable is rather informal.Synonyms
* (suitable to be eaten) eatable, edibleCoordinate terms
* drinkable, potableNoun
(en noun)- Comestibles of all sorts came to view, and a smell of cooking spread itself among the trees.
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- Both serve up, with no fanfare, country comestibles .
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- For instance, a food ration can be polymorphed into a carrot, a tripe ration, or any other comestible .
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- Precisely that, for example, homemade food, craft pottery, rough-hewn wood furniture, and consumption of comestibles in a barn, are not the usual daily experience is the reason it is fun, enticing and a contrast for a person when on holiday.
Usage notes
Rather formal; the simple term food is far more common. Similarly, the term beverage often serves as a formal equivalent of the more common drink. In both cases, the more elevated term (comestible'' , ''beverage'') is of French origin, while the plain term (''food,'' ''drink ) is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see (list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations).Synonyms
* foodstuff, sustenance, victuals * See alsoCoordinate terms
* beverage (relatively formal term for something intended to be drunk)References
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.