Laught vs Null - What's the difference?
laught | null |
(obsolete) (laugh)
* {{quote-book, year=1638, author=John Wilkins, title=The Discovery of a World in the Moone, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Other truths have beene formerly accounted as ridiculous as this, I shall specifie that of the Antipodes, which have beene denied and laught at by many wise men and great Schollers, such as were Herodotus'', St. ''Austin'', ''Lactantius'', the ''Venerable Bede'', ''Lucretius'' the Poet, ''Procopius'', and the voluminous ''Abulensis with others. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1665-1676, author=Sir John Lauder, title=Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They made this poor fellow beleive that he was only condemned to the galleys, at which he laught , telling that it appeared they knew not he was a smith, so that he could easily file his chaines and run away. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1679, author=Beaumont and Fletcher, title=The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=How Epidemick errors by thy Play Were laught out of esteeme, so purged away. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=William Ralph Inge, title=Christian Mysticism, chapter=, edition=
, passage="For this sight I laught mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me. }}
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 laught
is (obsolete) (laugh).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.laught
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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.