Persuaded vs Null - What's the difference?
persuaded | null |
(persuade)
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
, title= To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
* (Bible), 2 (w) xviii. 32
* 1834 , (w),
(obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
* (Bible), (w) vi. 9
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 persuaded
is (persuade).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.persuaded
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* persuadedly * persuadednesspersuade
English
Alternative forms
* perswade (obsolete)Verb
(persuad)- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
- We will persuade him, be it possible.
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
- Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:
- He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.
- Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.
Synonyms
* convinceAntonyms
* dissuadeDerived terms
* persuasion * persuasivenull
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.