Cleped vs Null - What's the difference?
cleped | null |
(clepe)
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.
(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to.
(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To call to one's self; invite; summon.
(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name.
* 1385 , Geoffery Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde :
* 1593 , Shakespeare, :
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 2001 , Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil :
(intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
(intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To report; relate; tell.
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 cleped
is (clepe).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cleped
English
Verb
(head)clepe
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
- For that that som men blamen ever yit,''
''Lo, other maner folk commenden it.''
''And as for me, for al swich variaunce,''
''Felicitee clepe I my suffisaunce.
- She clepes him king of graves, and grave for kings,''
''Imperious supreme of all mortal things.
- And there came against the place as they stood a young learning knight yclept Dixon.
- World traveling sorcerer supreme Charles Carter, yclept Carter the Mysterious, has made a startling discovery that makes the news from Europe seem mild indeed.
Usage notes
The verb is obsolete, except in dialects or when used in the past participle yclept which is sometimes used as a deliberate archaism, or as an idiomatic set phrase: aptly yclept .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.