Pablum vs Null - What's the difference?
pablum | null |
Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
*1992 , October 23rd, Daily Sentinel,
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 nouns the difference between pablum and null
is that pablum is anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As a proper noun Pablum
is a cereal brand for infants made from wheat, oat and cornmeal.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.As a verb null is
to nullify; to annul.pablum
English
(wikipedia pablum)Noun
(-)Writer Likes Clinton, on page 2:
- The Republican argument today is pablum , mush and saccharine (which exhausts my edible metaphors).
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.