Bide vs Null - What's the difference?
bide | null |
(transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
* Milton
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
(archaic) To wait for; to await.
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 nouns the difference between bide and null
is that bide is bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bide
English
Verb
- All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "bide")Usage notes
* The verb has been replaced by (abide) in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression (term, bide one's time).Derived terms
* bide one's time * abidenull
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.