Kenned vs Null - What's the difference?
kenned | null |
(ken)
Knowledge or perception.
Range of sight.
To know, perceive or understand.
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Addison
* Shakespeare
(slang, UK, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
English irregular verbs
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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 kenned
is (ken).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.kenned
English
Verb
(head)ken
English
Etymology 1
Northern and Scottish dialects from (etyl) . The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.Noun
(-)Usage notes
In common usage a (fossil word), found only in the phrase .Coordinate terms
* (nautical range of sight) (l)Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Verb
- I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
- We ken them from afar.''
- 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Derived terms
* beken * foreken * kenned * kenning * misken * underken * unkennedReferences
* * * * *Etymology 2
Perhaps from kennel.Noun
(en noun)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.