Foreread vs Null - What's the difference?
foreread | null |
To signify beforehand; predict.
*1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
*1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
To read beforehand or ahead of time.
*1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
(lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
*1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
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 foreread and null
is that foreread is a foreword; preface while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb foreread
is to signify beforehand; predict.foreread
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
- I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.
null
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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.