Ramshackle vs Null - What's the difference?
ramshackle | null |
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
* Thackeray
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
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, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
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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 ramshackle
is in disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ramshackle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There came my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
- They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
- He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
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Synonyms
* (in disrepair or disorder) bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, rickety, ruinous, rundown, tatterdemalion, tumbledownnull
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.