Fended vs Null - What's the difference?
fended | null |
(fend)
To take care of oneself, to take responsibility for oneself.
* 1990 , Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,
* 2003 , Scott Turow Reversible Errors ,
); to block or push away ((non-gloss definition)).
* Dryden
* 1999 , Kuan-chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel , page 39
* 2002 , Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor ,
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 fended
is (fend).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fended
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fend
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.
- Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.
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- The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend , and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.
- With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
- He fends , he blocks, too skillful to be downed.
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- “ My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”
Derived terms
* fend and prove * fend away * fender * fend for oneself * fend off * forfendAnagrams
* ----null
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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.