Scamble vs Null - What's the difference?
scamble | null |
To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
*1596 , Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
*:How easy dost thou take all England up!
*:From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
*:The life, the right and truth of all this realm
*:Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
*:To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
*:The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
To mangle.
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 scamble
is to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.scamble
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(scambl)- "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
- (Mortimer)
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.