Wite vs Null - What's the difference?
wite | null |
(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
Blame, responsibility, guilt.
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*:And so by fortune the ship drave unto a castle, and was all to-riven, and destroyed the most part. So many lords and barons of this realm were displeased, for their children were so lost, and many put the wite on Merlin more than on Arthur; so what for dread and for love, they held their peace.
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*::And so by fortune the shyp drofe vnto a castel and was al to ryuen and destroyed the most part/ So many lordes and barons of this reame were displeasyd / for her children were so lost / and many put the wyte on Merlyn more than on Arthur / so what for drede and for loue they helde their pees
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Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
(obsolete, or, poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
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 wite and null
is that wite is blame, responsibility, guilt while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb wite
is (chiefly|scotland) to blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse or wite can be (obsolete|or|poetic) to go, go away, depart, perish, vanish.wite
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , see below.Alternative forms
* wyteVerb
(wit)- As help me God, I shal þee nevere smyte! / Þat I have doon, it is þyself to wyte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , see below.Noun
(en noun)The Worm Ouroboros
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m)Verb
(wit)References
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia English terms with homophones ----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.