Braid vs Null - What's the difference?
braid | null |
(obsolete) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
(archaic) To start into motion.
To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
* Milton
To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
(obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
(obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
*, Bk.XII, ch.ii:
*:And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore).
:(Sackville)
A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
A fancy; freak; caprice.
:
(obsolete) deceitful
* Shakespeare
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 braid and null
is that braid is (obsolete) a sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb braid
is (obsolete|transitive) to make a sudden movement with, to jerk.As an adjective braid
is (obsolete) deceitful.braid
English
(wikipedia braid)Etymology 1
From (etyl) braiden, breiden, .Alternative forms
* brayde (obsolete), breyde (obsolete)Verb
- Braid your locks with rosy twine.
- (Shakespeare)
Noun
(en noun)External links
* * * (commonslite)Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since Frenchmen are so braid , / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
Anagrams
* ----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.