Particularize vs Null - What's the difference?
particularize | null |
To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
(intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
*, I.iii.2.1:
*:I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
* Atterbury
*1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 110:
*:Now it is his daily work to particularize , item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.
To differentiate, make distinct from others.
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 particularize
is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc; to single out.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.particularize
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Alternative forms
* particulariseVerb
(particulariz)- He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
null
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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.