Demure vs Null - What's the difference?
demure | null |
Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
* W. Black
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Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
* L'Estrange
* Miss Mitford
(obsolete) To look demurely.
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 demure
is quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.As a verb demure
is (obsolete) to look demurely.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.demure
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is a demure young lady.
- Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
- A cat lay, and looked so demure , as if there had been neither life nor soul in her.
- Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
Derived terms
* demurenessVerb
(demur)- Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes... shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.'' – Shakespeare (1623) ''Antony & Cleopatra Act 4, Sc 16, Ln 30
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.