Promposal vs Null - What's the difference?
promposal | null |
(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom.
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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 promposal and null
is that promposal is (informal) an invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.promposal
English
Alternative forms
* prom-posalNoun
(en noun)'''‘Promposals’ratchet up the fun, and the competition," ''Globe and Mail (Canada) (retrieved 25 April 2013):
- Once posed as a timid "Will you go to prom with me?" in the locker room, the promposal is now an extravagant public affair: Think choreographed dance numbers, serenades, elaborate scavenger hunts and dramatic staging.
'''‘Prom-posal’: Clever, elaborate prom invite, ''Washington Times / AP (retrieved 25 April 2013):
- Rebecca Leet, 17, had an audience of more than 250 people for a prom-posal from her boyfriend, Joe Nelson, 18.
It’s the season for '''promposals, the new trend in high school love," ''canada.com (retrieved 25 April 2013):
- Promposals can mimic marriage proposals — dropping down to one knee, and all that — or they can be more fun. Most appear to simply spell “prom?” in a creative way, and involve flowers.
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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.