Despite vs Null - What's the difference?
despite | null |
(obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
*Bible, Ezekiel xxv. 6
*:all thy despite against the land of Israel
*1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),
*:DON PEDRO. Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.
(archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
*:
*:he asked kynge Arthur yf he wold gyue hym leue to ryde after Balen and to reuenge the despyte' that he had done / Doo your best said Arthur I am right wroth said Balen I wold he were quyte of the ' despyte that he hath done to me and to my Courte
*Milton
*:a despite done against the Most High
Evil feeling; malice, spite.
In spite of, notwithstanding.
* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet III :
* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIX :
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
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 despite and null
is that despite is (obsolete) disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a preposition despite
is in spite of, notwithstanding.As a verb despite
is (obsolete) to vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.despite
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Alternative forms
* despight (obsolete)Noun
(-)Preposition
(English prepositions)- So thou through windows of thine age shall see
- Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
- Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
- My love shall in my verse ever live young.
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Derived terms
* despitefulVerb
(despit)- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Anagrams
*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.