Ruth vs Null - What's the difference?
ruth | null |
(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
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* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre) , Chapter IV, 1859, New York, Harper & Brothers,
* 2011 , Turisas (Mathias Nygård),
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad)'', XLIV, 2005, ''The Works of A. E. Housman'' [1994, ''The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman ],
* ~1937 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
(obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.
(obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
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 proper noun ruth
is a book of the old testament and the hebrew tanakh.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ruth
English
Noun
(-)- It was my fortune to be at Rome'', upon a day that one ''Catena , a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth .
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- under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth .
Hunting Pirates
- Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
- Clear the sea! —Show no ruth !
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- Now to your grave shall friend and stranger / With ruth and some with envy come.
- He mourned too late
- In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.
Derived terms
* ruthful * ruthlessAnagrams
*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.