Lack vs Null - What's the difference?
lack | null |
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To be without, to need, to require.
To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
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 lack
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.
Anagrams
* ----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.
