Sorta vs Null - What's the difference?
sorta | null |
(informal) Sort of; somewhat; not quite.
* 1912 , Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction , Volume 60,
* 1993 July, Sort of a Hero'', in '' ,
(colloquial) sort of.
* 2001 , Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide ,
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 adverb sorta
is (informal) sort of; somewhat; not quite.As a contraction sorta
is (colloquial) sort of.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sorta
English
Adverb
(-)- The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
page 680,
- 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. '
page 34,
- In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
Synonyms
* kindaContraction
- There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
page 97,
- He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"
- "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.
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.