Aby vs Null - What's the difference?
aby | null |
(obsolete) To pay for; to buy.
(archaic) To pay the penalty for; atone for.
* Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. - Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, III,ii
(obsolete) To pay the penalty; atone; to suffer, as a penalty.
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(archaic) To pay as penalty, to suffer.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(obsolete) Endure; remain.
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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 noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.aby
English
Alternative forms
* abye * abuyVerb
- Who dyes, the utmost dolor doth abye ; / But who that lives is lefte to waile his losse [...].
Usage notes
* , Aby and abide became confused with each other for a period of time.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.