Scape vs Null - What's the difference?
scape | null |
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
the lowest part of an insect's antenna
(architecture) the shaft of a column
(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
(archaic) to escape
*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
*:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
*:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
*:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
*:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
(archaic) escape
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
* Milton
(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
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 scape and null
is that scape is (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root or scape can be (archaic) escape while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb scape
is (archaic) to escape.scape
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)Verb
(scap)Noun
(en noun)- I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- (Donne)
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* * * ----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.
