Masquerade vs Null - What's the difference?
masquerade | null |
A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
(obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”
Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
(archaic) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
To conceal with masks; to disguise.
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 masquerade and null
is that masquerade is a party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb masquerade
is to assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.masquerade
English
Noun
(en noun)- In courtly balls and midnight masquerades -
- I was invited to the masquerade at their home.
- That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome -
See also
* costume partyVerb
- I'm going to masquerade as the wikipede. What are you going to dress up as?
- He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.
- A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin -
- To masquerade vice - Killingbeck
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.