Palters vs Null - What's the difference?
palters | null |
(palter)
To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
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* 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
To trifle.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 100
To haggle.
To babble; to chatter.
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 palters
is (palter).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.palters
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*palter
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter .
- Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, / Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
- I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is ?’
- Palter out your time in the penal statutes.
- Don't palter with the second rate.
- (Cotgrave)
Derived terms
* paltererAnagrams
*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.