Sonorous vs Null - What's the difference?
sonorous | null |
Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
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Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
* Addison
* E. Everett
Wordy or grandiloquent.
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 sonorous
is capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sonorous
English
Alternative forms
* sonourous (rare)Adjective
(en adjective)- The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
- There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
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.