What's the difference between null and unacceptable?

Null


Definition:

  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  • (n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  • (v. t.) To annul.
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
  • (4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
  • (5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
  • (7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
  • (8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
  • (9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
  • (10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
  • (12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
  • (13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
  • (15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
  • (16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
  • (18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
  • (19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
  • (20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.

Unacceptable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (2) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
  • (3) Unacceptable toxicity occurred in 27% of patients initially treated at the high dose and only in 10% of those who had progressive dose escalation up to 36 X 10(6) units.
  • (4) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
  • (5) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
  • (6) Miliband said: "Unfair pricing which hits the most vulnerable hardest is completely unacceptable.
  • (7) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
  • (8) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
  • (9) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
  • (10) There were large individual differences among rats selecting from pairs of unacceptable diets.
  • (11) I would have feared that doing as Proudman did and calling out behaviour that I found unacceptable would have been the end of my career, I would have let it go.
  • (12) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
  • (13) This was unacceptable to everyone since it gave the UK a veto over reinstating the arms ban.
  • (14) In an effort to relieve subvesical resistance in the established paraplegic with unacceptable neurogenic vesical dysfunction while simultaneously preserving potency, a radical Y-V-plasty was carried out in 5 patients.
  • (15) Of these, practolol, phentolamine, practolol-phentolamine, phentolamine-practolol, promethazine, hexamethonium, procainamide and verapamil were unacceptable.
  • (16) Firstly, missing anterior teeth result in unacceptable changes in appearance and speech, making treatment mandatory.
  • (17) It is noted that we are still very dependent on A-V shunts for vascular access in end stage renal disease (ESRF) patients and this is associated with an unacceptable level of complications.
  • (18) In this patient, azathioprine induced and sustained a remission when unacceptably high doses of prednisone had failed, and may prove to be a valuable immunosuppressive in non-responsive coeliac disease.
  • (19) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
  • (20) Storage in plastic for even 30 days resulted in unacceptable loss of potency (greater than 15%) and formation of a brown precipitate.