Spurn vs Null - What's the difference?
spurn | null |
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
* Shakespeare
To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
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(obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
* Chaucer
* Gay
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
A kick; a blow with the foot.
* Milton
(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
* Shakespeare
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
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 spurn and null
is that spurn is an act of spurning; a scornful rejection while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb spurn
is (ambitransitive) to reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.spurn
English
Verb
(en verb)- to spurn at your most royal image
- What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn .
- Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
- I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
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- The miller spurned at a stone.
- The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns .
Derived terms
* spurnerNoun
(en noun)- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn ?
- The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
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.