Unshent vs Null - What's the difference?
unshent | null |
(obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
:* {{quote-book
, year=1904
, year_published=2005
, edition=Reprint
, editor=
, author=George Henry Needler
, title=The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English
, chapter=How the Margrave was Slain
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 unshent
is (obsolete) not shent; not disgraced; blameless.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.unshent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Ho! all ye females that would live unshent , / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent . }}
References
(Webster 1913)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.