Speak vs Null - What's the difference?
speak | null |
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
* , chapter=13
, title= To have a conversation.
(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To utter.
* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
To produce a sound; to sound.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6
* Emerson
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
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 speak and null
is that speak is language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group or speak can be (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb speak
is to communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.speak
English
(wikipedia speak)Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
- Make all our trumpets speak .
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
Synonyms
* articulate, talk, verbalizeDerived terms
* public speaking * speakable * speaker * speakeasy * re-speak * unspeakable phrasal verbs * speak down * speak for * speak out * speak to * speak up idioms * actions speak louder than words * on speaking terms * so to speak * speak for oneself * speak highly of * speak ill of * speak in tongues * speak of the devil * speak one's mind * speak softly and carry a big stick * speak someone's language * speak volumes * speak with one voice * spoken forNoun
(-)- Corporate speak; IT speak
Derived terms
* artspeak * cyberspeak * doublespeak * lawyerspeak * leetspeak * medspeak * Newspeak * weather speakStatistics
*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.