Scroll vs Null - What's the difference?
scroll | null |
A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
(architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
(geometry) a skew surface.
(computing) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
(internet) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
* 1998 , "rOOth", Brain's chat'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.queen )
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 scroll and null
is that scroll is a roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb scroll
is (computing|transitive) to change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.scroll
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She scrolled the offending image out of view.
- The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
- Hey, stop scrolling !
- It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl(SIC) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.
Derived terms
* overscroll * scrollbar, scroll bar * scroll lock * scroll wheel * side scroller English ergative verbsnull
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.