Quiver vs Null - What's the difference?
quiver | null |
(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing , Act I, Scene I, line 271:
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 39:
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
(obsolete)
Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
(archaic) Nimble, active.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II , Act III, Scene II, line 281:
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
* 1593 , William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus , Act II, Scene III, line 12:
* Addison
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 quiver and null
is that quiver is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective quiver
is (archaic) nimble, active.As a verb quiver
is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.quiver
English
(wikipedia quiver)Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiver, from (etyl) quiveir, from (etyl) ).Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Köcher” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005). Replaced early modern (etyl) cocker. More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- Arrows were carried in quiver , called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl) *cwiferAdjective
(en adjective)- there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) quiveren, probably from the adjective.Verb
(en verb)- The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
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.