Shorthanded vs Null - What's the difference?
shorthanded | null |
Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
(ice hockey) Having fewer skaters on the ice during a play, as a result of a penalty.
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 shorthanded
is lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.shorthanded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
See also
* shorthand English words with consonant pseudo-digraphsnull
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.