Entreat vs Null - What's the difference?
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* 2006 , Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books , Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-5094-0, page 236:
(obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Jer. xv. 11
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
* Shakespeare
* Edgar Allan Poe
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
* Rogers
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
* 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
(obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
* Hakewill
* Bible, 1 Mac. x. 47
(obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.
* Knolles
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 entreat and null
is that entreat is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb entreat
is (obsolete) to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.entreat
English
Noun
(en noun)- In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.
Verb
(en verb)- Fairly let her be entreated .
- I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
- I do entreat your patience.
- some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
- It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat .
- “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
- One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true
- pleasures to entreat
- of which I shall have further occasion to entreat
- Alexander was first that entreated of true peace with them.
- The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.
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.