Pleading vs Null - What's the difference?
pleading | null |
The act of making a plea.
* (Thomas Hardy)
(legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
That pleads.
* 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
* 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
* 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
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, title= 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 pleading and null
is that pleading is the act of making a plea while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb pleading
is .As an adjective pleading
is that pleads.pleading
English
Noun
(en noun)- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
- With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
- Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Derived terms
* pleadinglyAnagrams
*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.