Espouse vs Null - What's the difference?
espouse | null |
To become/get married to.
To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
* 1998 , , Event Structure in Argument Linking , in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
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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 espouse
is to become/get married to.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.espouse
English
Verb
(espous)- Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing , since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
- Those that espoused this ideology
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.