Plunder vs Null - What's the difference?
plunder | null |
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To take (goods) by pillage.
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
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An instance of plundering
The loot attained by plundering
(slang, dated) baggage; luggage
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 plunder
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.plunder
English
Verb
(en verb)- ''The mercenaries plundered the small town.
- The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
- The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- ''"Now to plunder , mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
- ''The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
Derived terms
* plunderable * plunderage * plunderer * plunderousNoun
(-)- ''The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
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.