Roister vs Null - What's the difference?
roister | null |
To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To walk with a swaying motion.
(archaic) A roisterer.
* 1839 , The New Monthly Magazine (page 411)
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 roister and null
is that roister is (archaic) a roisterer while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb roister
is to engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.roister
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister ? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
Synonyms
* carouse, revel, riot * (walk with a swaying motion) swaggerDerived terms
* roisterer * roisterous * roisterouslyNoun
(en noun)- The youth who had joined the roisters , was apparently about eighteen
Anagrams
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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.