Feal vs Null - What's the difference?
feal | null |
(of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
*1847 , Henry Scott Riddell, Poems, songs and miscellaneous pieces :
(of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
* 1887 , Allan Cunningham, Henry Morley, Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry :
Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
In a feal manner.
(archaic) faithful, loyal
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 adjectives the difference between feal and null
is that feal is cosy; clean; neat while null is having no validity, "null and void.As verbs the difference between feal and null
is that feal is to hide while null is to nullify; to annul.As an adverb feal
is in a feal manner.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.feal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fele, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)- But if it stands in humble hame The bed, — I'll say this far in't, — Is clean and feel as ony lair King ever lay on — and that is mair Than mony ane could warrant.
- [...] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; [...]
Derived terms
* (l), (l)Adverb
(en-adv)Etymology 2
From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
(Not found in Middle English), from (etyl) feal, collateral form of feeil, from (etyl) fidelis.Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* fealtynull
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.
