Thole vs Null - What's the difference?
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To suffer.
* 14th c , '', 1840, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), ''The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume 1,
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To endure, to tolerate, to put up with.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 44:
*:But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer […].
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
*:While they were enjoying their meal and placidly tholing the cacophony from the wireless set, they saw the first of the Ardmore workers arrive in the café.
a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars
:* 1973': The oars squeaked against the '''tholes , the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea. — Patrick O'Brian, ''HMS Surprise
The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.
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 thole and null
is that thole is a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb thole
is to suffer.thole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tholen, .Verb
(en-verb)page 56,
- "Heit scot, heit, brok, what, spare ye for the stones? / The fend (quod he) you fecche, body and bones, / As ferforthly as ever ye were foled, / So mochel wo, as I have with you tholed . / The devil have al, bothe hors, and cart, and hay.”
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* thowel * thowlNoun
(en noun)- (Longfellow)
Anagrams
* * ----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.