Style vs Null - What's the difference?
style | null |
A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
* Chesterfield
* C. Middleton
* I. Disraeli
* Sir J. Reynolds
flair; grace; fashionable skill
(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
* Burke
(nonstandard) A stylus.
(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
A long, slender, bristle-like process.
The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
To create or give a style, fashion or image.
To call or give a name or title.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
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 style
is .As an adjective style
is elegant, stylish.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.style
English
Noun
(en noun)- Style is the dress of thoughts.
- the usual style of dedications
- It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
- The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
- As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
- the style of Majesty
- one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
- (Dryden)
- the anal styles of insects
- applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
- Cascading Style Sheets
Derived terms
* stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manualSee also
* substanceVerb
(styl)- Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.
Anagrams
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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.