Overset vs Null - What's the difference?
overset | null |
(obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.
To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.
(obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.
To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.
To knock over, capsize, overturn.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.104:
To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 152:
*:‘So this is the creature who oversets the household and suborns servants and clergymen,’ d'Anton said.
(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.
To translate.
*1879 , The Saturday magazine - Volume 1 - Page 87:
*1910 , Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Henry Ward Beecher, The Independent - Volume 69 - Page 1220 :
*2006 , John David Pizer, The idea of world literature :
To overfill.
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 overset
is (obsolete) to set over (something); to cover.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.overset
English
Verb
- (Mortimer)
- A reef between them also now began / To show its boiling surf and bounding spray, / But finding no place for their landing better, / They ran the boat for shore,—and overset her.
- Thus has the Tailor-art, so to speak, overset itself, like most other things; changed its centre-of-gravity; whirled suddenly over from zenith to nadir.
- Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the anthentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.
- They should be overset into English so as to reach a wider public here, for even his elementary descriptions of American universities, would not be so superfluous to any of us as we think, [...]
- The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset —as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.
- (Howell)
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.