Fleech vs Null - What's the difference?
fleech | null |
(Scotland) To wheedle; coax; cajole; induce with fair words; flatter.
* 1884 , John MacKay Wilson, Tales of the Borders and of Scotland (page 64)
(Scotland) To use cajoling or flattering words; speak insincerely.
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 fleech
is (scotland) to wheedle; coax; cajole; induce with fair words; flatter.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fleech
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
- I fleeched him, and I coaxed him, and I kicked him, and I cuffed him; but I might as weal hae kicked my heel upon the floor, or fleeched the fireplace.
Derived terms
* (l)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.