Greeve vs Null - What's the difference?
greeve | null |
Armor for the shins, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 22:
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 greeve and null
is that greeve is a reeve; steward or greeve can be armor for the shins, and occasionally the tops of the feet while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.greeve
English
(armor)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gryve, grayve, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) greve, grayve, from (etyl) , of unknown origin.Alternative forms
* greaveNoun
(en noun)- For the defence of the legs were worn a sort of iron boots, called Greeves .
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.