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slapdash | null |

As an adjective slapdash

is done hastily; haphazard; careless.

As an adverb slapdash

is in a hasty or careless manner.

As a verb slapdash

is (colloquial) to apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

slapdash

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Done hastily; haphazard; careless.
  • * 2014 , A teacher, " Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September 2014:
  • When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible attitude. If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a hasty or careless manner.
  • Directly, right there; slap-bang.
  • Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
  • With a slap; all at once; slap.
  • (Prior)

    Synonyms

    * (in a hasty manner): carelessly, haphazardly, hastily * (directly): directly

    Verb

  • (colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
  • to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
    to slapdash a wall

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----