Sweeten vs Null - What's the difference?
sweeten | null |
To make sweet to the taste.
To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings.
To make mild or kind; to soften.
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
* (rfdate) :
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
* (rfdate) :
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
To make warm and fertile.
To restore to purity; to free from taint.
To make more attractive;
To become sweet.
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 sweeten
is to make sweet to the taste.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sweeten
English
Verb
(en verb)- to sweeten tea
- to sweeten life
- to sweeten friendship
- to sweeten the temper
- to sweeten the cares of life
- And sweeten every secret tear.
- Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
- to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
- to sweeten the air
- to dry and sweeten soils
- to sweeten water, butter, or meat
- to by increasing the price offered
Antonyms
* (to make warm and fertile)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.