Recant vs Null - What's the difference?
recant | null |
(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
* Milton
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 recant
is (ambitransitive) to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.recant
English
Verb
(en verb)- Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant .
- How soon ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
Synonyms
* abjure * disavow * disown * recall * retract * revoke * take back * unsay * withcallSee also
* contradict * recall * revokeExternal links
* * *Anagrams
*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.