Offsider vs Null - What's the difference?
offsider | null |
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A partner, assistant, or deputy.
* 1987 , Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King , 2010,
* 2006 , Michael Roberts, 50 Years of Television in Australia ,
* 2007 , , Court in the Middle , 2010,
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 offsider and null
is that offsider is (australia|new zealand|informal) a partner, assistant, or deputy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.offsider
English
Noun
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- Kidman, riding hell for leather and carrying a heavy stockwhip, caught up with him soon after, or rather with his offsider , who was tailing the mob, and demanded an explanation for their trespassing.
- “Don?t ask me,” said the offsider . “You see the boss.”
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- With the 2005 incarnation of Temptation , Livinia Nixon has completed the trifecta of TV seconds: variety offsider , game show hostess and weather girl.
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- Tom also brought an offsider . I will never forget the look on the faces of the airline staff when Big Tony hauled his shooter out and slammed it on the counter. Tom and his sidekick did the same. I couldn?t believe these blokes were armed and how cool everyone was about it.
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.