Puerile vs Null - What's the difference?
puerile | null |
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer : puellile.
Childish; trifling; silly.
* (rfdate) De Quincey:
* 1927 , , page 79:
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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 an adjective puerile
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.puerile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
- From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.
Synonyms
* (childish): juvenile, silly, trifling,Derived terms
* puerilism * puerilitySee also
* boyish * yobbish * youthful ----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.