Metamorphosize vs Null - What's the difference?
metamorphosize | null |
(US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
* 1995 , Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth Page 36 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0809135124&id=wJHngNmPRTcC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=metamorphosizing+butterfly&sig=rI9a9fDJ1FI3X0-NauDkUwXqvHw]
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 a verb metamorphosize
is (us|nonstandard) to undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.metamorphosize
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Alternative forms
* metamorphosise (UK)Verb
- "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."
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.