Quit vs Null - What's the difference?
quit | null |
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
*:that judge that quits each soul his hire
To repay (someone) for (something).
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*:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
(obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
*:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
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*:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
To carry through; to go through to the end.
*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
*:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
(label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
(label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
(label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
(label) To leave (a place).
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
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To close (an application).
(quit)
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 quit
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiter, (etyl) quiter, from , ultimately from (etyl) quietus .Verb
Derived terms
* quitterQuotations
* (English Citations of "quit")Usage notes
* The past tense of quit'' is now ''quit'' for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow ''quitted'' as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by ''quit'' by about 16 to 1 in theBritish National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ''ie. She quitted her job.
References
Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage , Cambridge University Press, p. 453.Etymology 2
Derived terms
* bananaquitnull
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.