Handly vs Null - What's the difference?
handly | null |
Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
* 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
* 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
* 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
Handy; manageable.
* 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
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 an adjective handly
is of or pertaining to the hand; manual.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.handly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
- [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
- The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
- The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.
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.