Distaste vs Null - What's the difference?
distaste | null |
A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
(obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
(obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
* Francis Bacon
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
* Milton
(obsolete) To dislike.
* , Scene 2.
* , II.4.1.i:
to be distasteful; to taste bad
* , Scene 3.
(obsolete) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
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 distaste and null
is that distaste is a feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb distaste
is (obsolete|transitive) to dislike.distaste
English
Noun
(-)- (Francis Bacon)
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes , and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste .
Derived terms
* distastefulVerb
(distast)- Although my will distaste what it elected
- the Romans distasted them so much, that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 yeers not admitted.
- Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste ,
- He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
- (Drayton)
References
*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.