Lave vs Null - What's the difference?
lave | null |
(obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
To draw, as water; drink in.
To give bountifully; lavish.
To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
* Alexander Pope
* 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
* 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
* 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
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 proper noun lave
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(lav)- (Dryden)
- In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
- the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
- The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)- Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
- Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...
Anagrams
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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.