Backwoods vs Null - What's the difference?
backwoods | null |
Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
*1834 , (w), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.22:
*:about that time, you mayreckon, if like me you belong to the back-woods , that I began to make up my acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
Pertaining to the backwoods.
Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
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 backwoods and null
is that backwoods is partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in north america while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective backwoods
is pertaining to the backwoods.backwoods
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* backwoodReferences
*Derived terms
* backwoodsmannull
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.