Deigned vs Null - What's the difference?
deigned | null |
(deign)
To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.
To condescend to give; to do something.
* William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I scene II:
* 1871 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Heartsease, Or, The Brother's Wife (volume 2, page 189)
(obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
* 1598?' , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act I, scene I, line 162-3
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 deigned
is (deign).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.deigned
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(head)Anagrams
*deign
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Verb
(en verb)- He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
- Nor would we deign him burial of his men.
- He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face
- I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,receiving them from such a worthless post.
null
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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.