Outback vs Null - What's the difference?
outback | null |
(Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
* 1951' June, W. J. Banks, ''Flying Doctors of the '''Outback'' , ''The Rotarian ,
* 2000 , Shirley W. Gray, Australia ,
* 2002 , Erinn Banting. Australia: The People ,
* 2010 , Lonely Planet, BBC Earth, The Traveller?s Guide to Planet Earth ,
Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
* 1964 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1996 , David H. Bayley, Police for the Future ,
* 2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook ,
* 2008 , Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses , Easyread Large Edition,
To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
* 1953 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1984 , Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates: Senate Weekly Hansard , Volume 3,
* 2012 , Andy Hughes, A Ringer?s Hands ,
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 outback and null
is that outback is (australia) the most remote and desolate areas of australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective outback
is characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of australia; very remote from urban areas.As an adverb outback
is to or towards the most remote and desolate areas of australia.outback
English
(wikipedia outback)Noun
(en-noun)page 23,
- Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia?s “outback ” people.
page 31,
- In the outback , many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
page 20,
- The outback ?s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.
page 129,
- Astronomers consider the outback area around Alice Springs — with its low pollution, low humidity and few light sources — to be among the best star-gazing locations on earth.
Synonyms
* (the) bushAdjective
(en adjective)page 3081,
- the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
page 70,
- In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
page 215,
- From Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
page 135,
- We had a frosty meeting and he took me around to the AML&F Co?s staff officer, requesting a jackaroo position for me on the company?s most outback station in Queensland.
Adverb
(-)page 241,
- If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.
page 1474,
- This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.
page 10,
- Like me, the son was inspired to go outback , and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind.
See also
* back o' Bourke, back of beyond, bushAnagrams
*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.