Cavort vs Null - What's the difference?
cavort | null |
(originally) To prance, said of mounts
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
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* 1911 , :
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 cavort
is (originally|intransitive) to prance, said of mounts.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cavort
English
Verb
- And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted , / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do;
- He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.
Synonyms
* (move about boisterously) romp, frolic, prance, caperSee also
* horse aroundReferences
* * “The Way We Live Now: 7-14-02: On Language; Cavort”, William Safire criticizes White House rhetorics who apparently use the word to mean consort, and discusses its possible origins.
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.