Buttle vs Null - What's the difference?
buttle | null |
To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
* 1909 , J. T. Grein, Sunday Times :
* 1989 , Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War :
* 2000 , Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum :
* (seemoreCites)
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 buttle
is to serve as or perform the duties of a butler.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.buttle
English
Alternative forms
* butleVerb
(buttl)- ...even the stoic and impeccable maid of Miss Ethelwyn Arthur-Jones, who ‘buttled ’ as well as the most time-honoured butler.
- Houses where Negroes buttled or cooked were marked for a visit.
- At times like this, he buttled when Spriggan the butler was not on duty, or if an extra hand was needed, he footed as well.
Usage notes
* Because of its origins as a back-formation, buttle is considered nonstandard and uses are often jocular.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.