Guile vs Null - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
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Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
* 'The Bible - King James Version: John 1:47
to deceive, to beguile
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 guile and null
is that guile is (uncountable) astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb guile
is to deceive, to beguile.guile
English
Noun
citation, page= , passage=It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball.}}
citation, page= , passage=Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.}}
- Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile !
Verb
(guil)Derived terms
* beguile * guileful * guilelessReferences
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.