Overstate vs Null - What's the difference?
overstate | null |
To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.
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 overstate
is to exaggerate; to state or claim too much.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.overstate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
- He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
Synonyms
* exaggerateAntonyms
* understateDerived terms
* overstatementnull
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.