Skiver vs Null - What's the difference?
skiver | null |
One who uses a skive (or skives).
A slacker.
(dialect) A skewer.
An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
To skewer, impale.
*1863 , Le Fanu,
*1887 , Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders ,
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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 skiver and null
is that skiver is one who uses a skive (or skives) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb skiver
is to skewer, impale.skiver
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- [...] 'it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
Noun
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.