Pictorial vs Null - What's the difference?
pictorial | null |
Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.
Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.
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Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions (of a photograph) – see pictorialism.
a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof
an article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs
(philately) a stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.
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 pictorial and null
is that pictorial is a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective pictorial
is of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.pictorial
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Usage notes
Can be used comparatively “Could you give a more pictorial treatment of this subject?” but this usage is uncommon.Derived terms
* pictorial convention * pictorialism * pictoriallyNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Individual titles will be capitalized e.g. "Sunday Pictorial" * In sense “an article consisting primarily of photographs”, particularly used of photographs of people, as in “The budding starlet is featured in a pictorial in a glossy magazine next week.”Coordinate terms
* (collection of images) gallery, slideshownull
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.