Impish vs Null - What's the difference?
impish | null |
mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
* {{quote-book
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, author=H. G. Wells
, title=A Story of the Stone Age
, chapter=1
* {{quote-book
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, author=Virginia Woolf
, title=The Death of the Moth, and other essays
, chapter=20
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 an adjective impish
is mischievous; of or befitting an imp.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.impish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.}}
citation, passage=But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.}}
Synonyms
* (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckishnull
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.