Threaden vs Null - What's the difference?
threaden | null |
(label) Made or woven of thread; textile.
*1811 , Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review :
*1861 , Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams :
*2014 , Ben Jonson, ?Elizabeth Cook, The Alchemist :
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 threaden
is (label) made or woven of thread; textile.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.threaden
English
Adjective
(-)- (Shakespeare)
- Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch, Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […]
- That kindness plungeth him into a deeper bondage; the first was but a threaden snare, which he might break, but this is an infrangible chain of iron.
- Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes, A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloak, That scarce would cover your no-buttocks— [...]
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.