Lithe vs Null - What's the difference?
lithe | null |
(obsolete) To go.
(obsolete) Mild; calm.
slim but not skinny
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Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
* 1861 , , page 125
(obsolete) To become calm.
(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
(obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
To listen to.
(Scotland) Shelter.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
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 lithe and null
is that lithe is (scotland) shelter while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb lithe
is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen.As an adjective lithe
is (obsolete) mild; calm.lithe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- ''lithe weather
- lithe body
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
Synonyms
* lithesome, lissome,Etymology 3
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .Verb
(head)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(lith)Etymology 5
Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).Noun
(en noun)- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
Anagrams
*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.