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rede | null |

As nouns the difference between rede and null

is that rede is speech while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

rede

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
  • Ophelia:
    Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
    Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
    Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
    Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
    And recks not his own rede.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol. 1:
  • When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede "
  • * 1954 , JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers :
  • ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’
  • (archaic) Decision, a plan.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reden, . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To govern, protect.
  • To discuss, deliberate.
  • To advise.
  • :(Chaucer)
  • *:
  • *:The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a kny?tes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus
  • To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
  • :(Chaucer)
  • *1836 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Sartor Resartus)
  • *:The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede .
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----