Fordo vs Null - What's the difference?
fordo | null |
(obsolete) To kill, destroy.
*1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 1:
*:This doth betoken / The corpse they follow did with desperate hand / Fordo it own life.
(obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
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(archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
(archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
*1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
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 fordo
is (obsolete) to kill, destroy.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fordo
English
Alternative forms
* foredoVerb
- And that pena?ce god hath ordeyned yow for that dede / that he that ye shalle most truste to of ony man alyue / he shalle leue yow ther ye shalle be slayne / Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny
- worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.
Quotations
* (foredo)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.