Proud vs Null - What's the difference?
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Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (chiefly, Biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
* 1611 , Proverbs 16:5, King James Version
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=(Hilaire Belloc), title=(Cautionary Tales for Children), section=Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
, passage=Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud ! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!}}
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
Standing out or raised; swollen.
(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm ' proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
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 proud
is gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.proud
English
Alternative forms
* prowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ashamedDerived terms
* do someone proud * house-proud * proud as a peacock * proudfall * proud-hearted * proudling * proudly * proudness * proud-pied * proud-stomachedAnagrams
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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.