Proposes vs Null - What's the difference?
proposes | null |
(propose)
To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
To intend.
* 1859 , (John Gorham Palfrey), History of New England ,
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, title= (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
(obsolete) To set forth.
* 1616 , (George Chapman) (translator), Homer's Iliad , book 11:
(obsolete) An objective or aim.
*, II.17:
*:whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose .
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 proposes
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.proposes
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----propose
English
Verb
(propos)Preface (Google preview):
- I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world.}}
- HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;
- There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
- Proposing with the prince and Claudio
- . . . so weighty was the cup,
- That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.
Usage notes
* In use 1. this is sometimes a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In use 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . * For more information, see * Compared to to suggest'', ''to propose is more deliberate and definite. To suggest is merely to mention, while to propose is to have a definite plan and intention.Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* proposal * propositionNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English reporting verbs ----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.