Outright vs Null - What's the difference?
outright | null |
Wholly, completely and entirely.
Openly and without reservation.
At once.
With no outstanding conditions.
(informal) Blatantly; inexcusably.
Unqualified and unreserved.
Total or complete.
Having no outstanding conditions.
* Deutsche Bundesbank,
(sports) To release a player , without conditions.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 30, author=Ben Shpigel, title=Martínez to Audition for Mets’ Brain Trust, work=New York Times
, passage=Sandy Alomar Jr. cleared waivers and was outrighted to Class AA Binghamton in preparation for his promotion when rosters expand Saturday. }}
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 adverb outright
is wholly, completely and entirely.As an adjective outright
is unqualified and unreserved.As a verb outright
is (sports) to release a player , without conditions.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.outright
English
Adverb
(-)- I refute those allegations outright .
- I have just responded outright to that question.
- Two people died outright and one more later.
- I have bought the house outright .
- That was an outright stupid thing to say.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(-)- I demand an outright apology.
- We achieved outright domination.
- Truths, half truths and outright lies.
- With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.
- He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.
Outright transactions
- According to the general rules for Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures, the outright' purchase and sale of securities on the market (' outright transactions) are among the standard open market operations used within the Eurosystem’s monetary policy framework.
- I made an outright purchase of the house.
- They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.
Synonyms
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(en verb)citation
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.