Thane vs Null - What's the difference?
thane | null |
(historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron."
* 1845 , (translator), A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings , 2004,
* 1910 , Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England , Walter Scott Publishing, New York,
* 2000 , '', ''Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings ,
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 thane and null
is that thane is cranberry shrub while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.thane
English
(Thegn)Alternative forms
* thegnNoun
(en noun)thane]", entry in 1852', ''Putnam's Home Cyclopedia: Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts'', p594 — The '''thanes''' in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's '''thanes''', who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary '''thanes , who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits.After the [NormanConquest, this title was disused, and ''baron took its place.
page 317,
- The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
- The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
- The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
page 144,
- Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane' and serf, if the serf utterly kills the ' thane , he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.
See also
* baron * gesithAnagrams
* *References
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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.