Belie vs Null - What's the difference?
belie | null |
(obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
(transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
To tell lies about; to slander.
* Shakespeare
To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.
* Shakespeare
*, II.2.6.iv:
To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
* Dryden
To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
* 2013 , Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought,"
To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
* 1993 , Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41586-6,
(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
(obsolete) To fill with lies.
* Shakespeare
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 belie
is (obsolete) to lie around; encompass or belie can be to tell lies about; to slander.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.belie
English
Alternative forms
*Etymology 1
From (etyl) belyen, beliggen, from (etyl) belicgan, . Cognate with German beliegen.Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belyen, .Verb
- Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
- Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
- He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not […].
- Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.
- Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.
New York Times, August 31, 2013
- The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.
- His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.
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- A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.
- (Dryden)
- The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.
Synonyms
* (to give a false representation) misrepresent * (to tell lies about) calumniate * (to contradict or show to be false) contradict, give lie to, give the lie tonull
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.