Fremd vs Null - What's the difference?
fremd | null |
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
* 1873 , Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Not akin; unrelated.
* 1875 , John Howard Nodal, George Milner, A glossary of the Lancashire dialect :
* 1851 , Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside :
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Out of the ordinary; unusual; unwonted.
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; weird; outlandish; singular; odd; queer.
(archaic, or, obsolete) Wild; untamed.
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 nouns the difference between fremd and null
is that fremd is (rare|or|chiefly dialectal) stranger; guest while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective fremd
is (rare|or|chiefly dialectal) strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.fremd
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l) (Scottish)Adjective
(en-adj)- [...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk !
- Thus, a person living with a family to whom he is not related is termed "a fremd' body." If it were asked, "Is he akin to you?" the answer would be, "Nawe, he's ' fremd ," i.e. "he's one of us, but not a relation."
- [...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.
- a fremd day
- A fremd man this. — Hodgson MS.
Derived terms
* (l)References
* 1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "fremd". * 1883, The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, "fremde, fremed". ----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.