Purloin vs Null - What's the difference?
purloin | null |
To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
* Milton
* {{quote-book
, year=1900
, author=One Who Was in It
, title=Kruger's Secret Service
, chapter=8
, pages=168-169
, passage=Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned.}}
To commit theft; to thieve.
* {{quote-book
, year=2006 [1622]
, author=William Gouge
, title=Of Domestical Duties
, isbn=1430309598
, page=454
, passage=The Apostle expressly forbiddeth servants to purloin (Titus 2:10).}}
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 purloin
is to take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.purloin
English
Verb
(en verb)- Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold.
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.