Offside vs Null - What's the difference?
offside | null |
(sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball
(US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk, e.g. an offside diner (restaurant.)
(bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
(sports) An offside play
(British) the right side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle
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 offside and null
is that offside is (sports) an offside play while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective offside
is (sports) in an illegal position ahead of the ball.offside
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Precise usage varies between sports; offside'' is used more in association football, while the form ''offsides is (perhaps erroneously) used by some in American football.Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (roadside) nearsideSee also
* off side * offside trapAnagrams
*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.