Oft vs Null - What's the difference?
oft | null |
(chiefly, poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
* 1623', , Volume 4, 1778,
* 1819', , John Galt (biography), ''The Pophecy of Dante'', Canto the Fourth, '''1857 , ''The Complete Works of Lord Byron , Volume 1,
* 1902 , James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky'', quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), ''The Kentucky Anthology ,
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 an initialism oft
is (uk) (office of fair trading).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.oft
English
Adverb
(er)- An oft -told tale
page 45,
- What I can do, can do no hurt to try: / Since you ?et up your re?t 'gain?t remedy: / He that of greate?t works is fini?her, / Oft does them by the weake?t mini?ter; / So holy writ in babes hath judgment ?hown, / When judges have been babes.
page 403,
- And how is it that they, the sons of fame, / Whose inspiration seems to them to shine / From high, they whom the nations oftest name, / Must pass their days in penury or pain, / Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame, / And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?
page 203,
- The moonlight falls the softest / In Kentucky; / The summer days come oftest / In Kentucky;
Usage notes
* In widespread contemporary use in combination.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.