Overreachest vs Null - What's the difference?
overreachest | null |
(archaic) (overreach)
The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.
*2010 , Brian Montopoli, CBS News Obama: People Saw "Overreach" in My Actions :
To reach above or beyond in any direction.
To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
* 1594 , , III. ii. 144:
* 1599 , , V. i. 78:
To reach too far
(of horses) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot.
(nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
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 overreachest
is (archaic) (overreach).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.overreachest
English
Verb
(head)overreach
English
Noun
(overreaches)- But, you know, I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, 'This is looking like potential overreach .'"
Verb
- We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio,
- This might be / the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches ; / one that would circumvent God, might it not?
- (Shakespeare)
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.