Wots vs Null - What's the difference?
wots | null |
(wot)
(archaic) To know.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XII:
* 1855 , John Godfrey Saxe, Poems , Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
* 1866 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads , 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
* 1889 , William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains , Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
(wit)
what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents )
* 1859', Then, '''wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so. — Charles Dickens, ''A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
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 wots
is (wot).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wots
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wot
English
Etymology 1
An extension of the present-tense form of (m) (verb) to apply to all forms.Verb
(en-verb)- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- She little wots , poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- They wot not who make thither [...].
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were [...].
Etymology 2
From (m), in return from (etyl) (m).Verb
(head)Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.Interjection
(en interjection)- Wot , no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----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.