Personable vs Null - What's the difference?
personable | null |
(of a person) Having a pleasing appearance or manner; attractive; handsome; friendly; amiable.
* Spenser
* 1822 , , The Fortunes of Nigel , ch. 19:
* 1908 , , A Room With a View , ch. 12:
* 1919 , . The Sun Of Quebec , ch. 5:
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(legal) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
Having capacity to take anything granted.
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 personable
is (of a person) having a pleasing appearance or manner; attractive; handsome; friendly; amiable.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.personable
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Wise, warlike, personable , courteous, and kind.
- I admit him a personable man, for I have seen him; and I will suppose him courteous and agreeable.
- Barefoot, bare-chested, radiant and personable against the shadowy woods, he called: "Hullo, Miss Honeychurch! Hullo!"
- I'm bound to admit that you're a personable young rascal, with the best manners I've met in a long time.
2-Min. Bio: Stephanie Birkitt: Letterman's Lover?," Time , 5 Oct.:
- Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind and is great fun to play catch with.
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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.