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Spate vs Null - What's the difference?

spate | null |

As nouns the difference between spate and null

is that spate is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

spate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • * 17thC , '', from a Latin original, published in ''Collected works of Sir Thomas Browne (1836),
  • Only let your language match your subject, then it will be shapely and free; but take care all the time not to overwhelm your work in a spate of words to attain the fluency of Isaeus; and that it slip not out too freely, avoid the danger of Strada.
  • * c.1856-1885 , ,
  • The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
    And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring
    Stared at the spate . A slender-shafted Pine
    Lost footing, fell, and so was whirled away.
  • * 1900 , ,
  • At Odendaal, where he had hoped to cross, the river was in spate , the British flag waved from a post upon the further side, and a strong force of expectant Guardsmen eagerly awaited him there.
  • * 1902 , ,
  • The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate .
  • * 1910 , ,
  • At the edge of the burn, where the path turns downward, there is a patch of shingle washed up by some spate .
  • A sudden rush or increase.
  • * 1887 , '', in ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
  • He couldnae weel tell how - maybe it was the cauld to his feet - but it cam' in upon him wi' a spate that there was some connection between thir twa, an' that either or baith o' them were bogles.
  • * 1964 , United States Supreme Court, ,
  • The spate of similar cases filed and decided by lower courts since our decision in Baker [v. Carr] amply shows that the problem of state legislative malapportionment is one that is perceived to exist in a large number of the States.
  • * 2009 April, ,
  • A recent spate of controversies, including Chinese mineral giant Chinalco’s Rio Tinto bid and revelations of hushed meetings between the Chinese propaganda chief and Australian media bosses, have once again brought the issue of our deepening relationship with China to the fore.
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  • Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----