Synecdoche vs Null - What's the difference?
synecdoche | null |
(figure of speech) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.
* 2002 , (Christopher Hitchens), "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic , Sep 2002:
(rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.
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 synecdoche and null
is that synecdoche is (figure of speech) a figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.synecdoche
English
(wikipedia synecdoche)Alternative forms
* syndoche, synechdocheNoun
(en noun)- "Holocaust" can become a tired syndecdoche for war crimes in general.
Synonyms
* (part for the whole) pars pro totoHypernyms
* metonymyDerived terms
* synecdochy * synecdochic * synecdochical * synecdochicallySee also
* metaphor * metonymy * (wikipedia "synecdoche") ----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.