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groop | null |

As nouns the difference between groop and null

is that groop is a trench or small ditch or groop can be while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb groop

is (obsolete) to make a channel or groove; to form grooves or groop can be .

groop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) grope, grupe, groupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trench or small ditch.
  • A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1816 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=James Cleland , title=Annals of Glasgow , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=373 , passage=The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, … }}
  • *2008 , Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones :
    • Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop , sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
  • A pen for cattle; a byre.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of group. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1828 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=William Taylor , title=Historic Survey of German Poetry , chapter= citation , genre=Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter , publisher= , isbn= , page=179 , passage=Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1834 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Charles Augustus Davis , title=Letters of J. Downing, Major , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Harper & Brothers , isbn= , page=158 , passage=… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there; }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1985 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz , title=Design Theory , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Bibliographisches Institut , isbn=9783411016754 , page=560 , passage=Delete one point x'' and consider as new groops the point sets ''B\{x}'' where ''B'' is any block of D containing ''x . }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization , title=Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=University of Waterloo , isbn= , page=90 , passage=A groop''' divisible design'' on ''v'' points with '''groop''' size ''g'' and block size ''k'' is called a ''t-GD[k,g,;v]'' if every subset of ''t'' distinct points that contains no two points from the same ' groop is contained in exactly one block. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1810 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson , author= , title=The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=485 , passage=I GROOPED in thy pocket pretty peate. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1829 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=40 , passage=Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, … }}

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----