Periphrastic vs Null - What's the difference?
periphrastic | null |
Expressed in more words than are necessary.
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* 1940 , :
Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
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(grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.
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 an adjective periphrastic
is expressed in more words than are necessary.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.periphrastic
English
Adjective
(-)An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
- As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic , arbitrary, not at all faithful.
- "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
- In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good .
- “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.
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.