Foretaste vs Null - What's the difference?
foretaste | null |
A taste beforehand; foresmack.
A sample taken in anticipation; enjoyment taken in advance.
To taste beforehand.
To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
To taste before another.
*1667 , John Milton, Paradise lost :
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 foretaste and null
is that foretaste is a taste beforehand; foresmack while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb foretaste
is to taste beforehand.foretaste
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
* aftertasteVerb
(en-verb)- [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]
Derived terms
* (l)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.