Shed vs Null - What's the difference?
shed | null |
(transitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To part or divide.
(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
* Mortimer
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(archaic) To pour; to make flow.
* Shakespeare
To allow to flow or fall.
To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
(obsolete) To pour forth, give off, impart.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
(obsolete) To fall in drops; to pour.
* Chaucer
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
* Ben Jonson
(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
(obsolete) A parting in the hair.
(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
(British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
(British, rail transportation) A locomotive.
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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 shed and null
is that shed is (weaving) an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven or shed can be a slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb shed
is (transitive|obsolete|uk|dialect) to part or divide.shed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sheden, scheden, schoden, from (etyl) 'he cuts off'). Related to (l); (l).Verb
- A metal comb shed her golden hair.
- (Robert of Brunne)
- You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
- When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
- White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
- She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
- Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
- I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
- A tarpaulin sheds water.
- Can you shed any light on this problem?
- Sence now that he by the right honde of god exalted is, and hath receaved off the father the promys off the holy goost, he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
- Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .
- Her hair is shed with grey.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) schede, schode, (m), .Alternative forms
* (dialectal) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* watershedEtymology 3
Variant of shade .Noun
(en noun)- a wagon shed'''; a wood '''shed'''; a garden '''shed
Derived terms
* * * * *See also
* cabin * hovel * hut * kiosk * outbuilding * pergola * shack * shanty * stall * storehousenull
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.