Bate vs Null - What's the difference?
bate | null |
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
* Dryden
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, with bated breath .
(transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
* Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
* Holland
(archaic) To leave out, except, bar.
* 1610 , , act 2, scene 1:
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To waste away.
* 1597 , , act 3, scene 3:
To deprive of.
* Herbert
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
* John Locke
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
* South
Strife; contention.
* 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2 :
* 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
* 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli :
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
(falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
(nonstandard) (beat); = beat.
* 2008 October 20th, , episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”
(slang) To masturbate.
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 bate
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bate
English
Etymology 1
Aphetic from (abate).Verb
(bat)- Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
- (Sebastian) "Bate , I beseech you, widow Dido."
- Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
- (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle?"
- When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
- He must either bate the labourer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
- to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament
References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 2
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun (debate). * Verb: From Anglo-Saxon = contention. From (etyl) batre (French battre). From batere.Noun
(-)- ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
- So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing;
- The other merely needs jealousy and bate , of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
Verb
(bat)- (Francis Bacon)
See also
* (to contend or strive with blows or arguments) bait.Etymology 3
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(bat)References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 4
Formed by analogy with eat ? ate, with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten ? beaten).Verb
(head)- . Goodnight.
Etymology 5
Shortening of (m).Verb
(bat)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----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.