Apothegm vs Null - What's the difference?
apothegm | null |
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
* 1665 , , The English Rogue: De?cribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hi?tory of the Mo?t Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes , Henry Marsh,
* 1920 ,
* 2008 , , ISBN 978-0-441-01575-7, page 114,
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 apothegm and null
is that apothegm is a short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.apothegm
English
Alternative forms
* apophthegmNoun
(en noun)page 355,
- Every gla?s of wine, or bit almo?t, that I committed to my mouth, ?he u?hered thither with ?ome Apothegm or other: the whole ?eries, indeed, of her di?cour?e, was compo?ed of nothing but rea?on or wit, which made me admire her; which ?he ea?ily under?tood, I perceived by her ?miles, when ?he ob?erved me gaping, as it were, when ?he ?poke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.
- "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
- She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
- "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
- Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by .)
Synonyms
* See .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.