Tithe vs Null - What's the difference?
tithe | null |
(archaic) A tenth.
The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. Concept originates in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship.
A small part or proportion.
(archaic) Tenth.
* Shakespeare
(transitive) To collect a tithe.
To pay a tithe.
(transitive) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
* Bible, Luke xi. 42
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 tithe and null
is that tithe is (archaic) a tenth while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective tithe
is (archaic) tenth.As a verb tithe
is (transitive) to collect a tithe.tithe
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia tithe)- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* tithelessAdjective
(-)- Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand.
Verb
(tith)- Ye tithe mint and rue.
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.