Bote vs Null - What's the difference?
bote | null |
The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
A payment of any kind.
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
(legal, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
(obsolete) repairs
(obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
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 bote and null
is that bote is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bote
English
Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en-noun)- Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
- Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
Usage notes
* Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.Synonyms
* estoversDerived terms
* burghbote * cartbote * firebote * frithbote * haybote * hedgebote * housebote * maegbote * manbote * plowbote, ploughbote * theftbote * wainboteReferences
(Webster 1913) * Middle English Dictionary ----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.
