Periphrasis vs Null - What's the difference?
periphrasis | null |
The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
(linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
(rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a species of circumlocution)
(rhetoric) The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.
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 periphrasis and null
is that periphrasis is the use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "i am going to" instead of "i will" while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.periphrasis
English
(wikipedia periphrasis)Noun
(periphrases)Synonyms
* beat around the bush * circumlocutionReferences
*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.