Backed vs Null - What's the difference?
backed | null |
(back)
(obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
(in combination) Having specified type of back.
(in combination) Having specified type of backing.
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 backed
is (back).As an adjective backed
is (obsolete|slang) put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.backed
English
Etymology 1
From (back) (verb)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(-)- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed ; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- asset-backed securities
Derived terms
* asset-backedReferences
*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.