Lease vs Null - What's the difference?
lease | null |
(chiefly dialectal) to gather.
(chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
false; lying; deceptive
To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
an open pasture or common
*1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
*:Since as a child I used to lie
*:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
*:Never, I own, expected I
*:That life would all be fair.
To release; let go; unloose.
To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
To take or hold by lease.
To grant a lease; to let or rent.
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
The period of such a contract
A leasehold
The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
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 lease and null
is that lease is falsehood; a lie or lease can be an open pasture or common or lease can be a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or lease can be the place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb lease
is (chiefly dialectal) to gather or lease can be to tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate or lease can be to release; let go; unloose or lease can be to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).As an adjective lease
is false; lying; deceptive.lease
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Verb
(leas)- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(leas)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(leas)Etymology 6
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(leas)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 7
From (leash)Noun
Anagrams
* English contranyms ----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.