Backread vs Null - What's the difference?
backread | null |
(Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge
* 1980 , Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud
* 2001 , Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices
(backread)
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 backread
is (internet|slang|especially in irc) to catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.backread
English
Verb
- Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.
- What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.
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.