Transpire vs Null - What's the difference?
transpire | null |
To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
(obsolete) To perspire.
(botany) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
To become known; to escape from secrecy.
* De Quincey
(loosely) To happen, take place.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 166:
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 transpire
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.transpire
English
(Transpiration)Verb
- The proceedings of the council soon transpired .
- The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.
- Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired .
Synonyms
* (become known) be revealed, be discovered, come to light * (happen) come about, come to pass, occur * (perspire) perspire, sweatDerived terms
* transpirationAnagrams
* ----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.