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teen | null |

As nouns the difference between teen and null

is that teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old or teen can be (label) grief, sorrow; suffering while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb teen

is (obsolete) to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure or teen can be (transitive|obsolete|provincial) to hedge or fence in; to enclose.

teen

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, III.5:
  • *:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
  • *
  • *:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
  • *1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
  • *:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
  • *1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
  • *:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
  • *:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
  • (Halliwell)

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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 ----