Sheave vs Null - What's the difference?
sheave | null |
A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
to gather and bind into a sheaf
* , Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
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 sheave and null
is that sheave is a wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sheave
is to gather and bind into a sheaf.sheave
English
Etymology 1
Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse . For more see .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
See .Verb
(sheav)- ''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
- ''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
- ''Their country's harvest.
See also
* (pulley)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.