Recreate vs Null - What's the difference?
recreate | null |
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
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 recreate
is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
Etymology 2
From re-'' + ''create .Verb
(recreat)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.