Shool vs Null - What's the difference?
shool | null |
A shovel
* 1611' ''And the pots, and the '''shouels , and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
* 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
A spade
* 2010' "'''shool spade ''see'' shovel" (''A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)
To move materials with a shovel.
(figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
* 1898' ''The Winter's Tale [Annotated]'' by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, ''[Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives:'' 'Shool'', A shovel' and'' 'To '''shool on'', metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
To shuffle or shamble
* 1988' ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus'', Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-169-4, (page 652), ''"scuffle ''vb''...''2 syn'' , scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool''', shovel"''; (page 670) ''"shuffle ''vb'' ''syn'' scuff, scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool , shovel"
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 shool and null
is that shool is a shovel while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb shool
is to move materials with a shovel.shool
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
References
*Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel *
TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel , *
Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool — n a dialect word for shovel , *
Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: ''Definition of SHOOL... *: ''1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle *: 2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter
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.