Deracinate vs Null - What's the difference?
deracinate | null |
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
* 1602 , Shakespeare,
* 1910 , G.K. Chesterton,
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
(intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
* 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil , The Story of English , Viking Penguin Inc., p328:
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 deracinate
is to pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.deracinate
English
Verb
(deracinat)- Divert and crack, rend and deracinate ,
- The unity and married calm of states
- Quite from their fixture!
- The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.
- Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated .
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.