Weighed vs Null - What's the difference?
weighed | null |
(weigh)
To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
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 a verb weighed
is (weigh).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.weighed
English
Verb
(head)weigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh
Derived terms
* weigh down * weigh in/weigh-in * weight * weighty * weigh up * weigh onnull
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.