Compleat vs Null - What's the difference?
compleat | null |
(archaic) to finish; to make done; to reach the end.
(archaic) to make whole or entire.
(label) with everything included; entire, total.
(label) quintessential.
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 compleat
is (archaic) to finish; to make done; to reach the end.As an adjective compleat
is (label) with everything included; entire, total.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.compleat
English
Alternative forms
* completeVerb
(en verb)References
* He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation... -- 1776 AD, the .Adjective
(-)References
* Here was the compleat modern misfit: the very air appeared to poison him;his every step looked treacherous and hard won [...] beneath an anarchy as much physiological as psychological. -- Stephen Schiff. ----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.