Downplay vs Null - What's the difference?
downplay | null |
To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
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 downplay
is to de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.downplay
English
Alternative forms
* play downVerb
(en verb)- He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
Usage notes
* The synonymous alternative form (play down) is slightly more formal, or slightly less informal.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.