Distrain vs Null - What's the difference?
distrain | null |
(label) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
*, VII:
*:But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine .
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xii:
*:Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.
To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.
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(label) To pull off, tear apart.
*, II.xii:
*:For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine .
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 distrain
is (label) to squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.distrain
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* distressDerived terms
* distrainable * distrainee * distrainer * distrainment * distrainor * distraintExternal links
* * *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.