Fay vs Null - What's the difference?
fay | null |
To fit.
To join or unite closely or tightly.
* US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
* Model Shipbuilders , 2010:
To lie close together.
To fadge.
A fairy; an elf.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
White.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
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 proper noun fay
is , originally a nickname from "faith, loyalty" or "a fairy".As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feyen, feien, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
Derived terms
* faying surfaceEtymology 2
From (etyl) fegien, . More at (l), (l), (l).Etymology 3
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.Noun
(en noun)- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
See also
* fey * faeEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (ofay).Adjective
(en adjective)- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
Anagrams
*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.