Sty vs Null - What's the difference?
sty | null |
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
A ladder.
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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 an adjective sty
is hundredth.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sty
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(sties)- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigstyVerb
(en-verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stighVerb
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
* *Noun
(sties)Etymology 3
Probably a .Alternative forms
* styeNoun
(sties)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.