Tread vs Null - What's the difference?
tread | null |
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
To step or walk upon.
To beat or press with the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 5
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
(of a male bird) To copulate with.
(tread)
A step.
A manner of stepping.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A way; a track or path.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1896 , (Bret Harte), Barker's Luck and Other Stories
(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of copulation in birds.
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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 tread and null
is that tread is a step while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb tread
is to step or walk (on or over something); to trample.tread
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) treden, from (etyl) {{term, tredan, , to tread, step on, trample, traverse, pass over, enter upon, roam through , lang=ang}}, from (etyl) , Norwegian treda.Verb
- He trod back and forth wearily.
- Don't tread on the lawn.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread .
- ye that stately tread , or lowly creep
- Actors tread the boards.
- to tread''' a path; to '''tread''' land when too light; a well-'''trodden path
- I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
- They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
- Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Chaucer)
Usage notes
* "(term)" is not commonly used in the UK and is less common in the US as well. It is apparently used more often in (tread water). * (term) is sometimes used as a past and past participle, especially in the US.Derived terms
* betread * * tread water * untrod * treading on eggshellsUse of expression in delicate situations; be nice
Etymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread , / My heart would hear her and beat.
- (Shakespeare)
- The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
- But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.
Synonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) runAntonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) rise, riserDerived terms
*See also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
*References
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.