Spastic vs Null - What's the difference?
spastic | null |
(pathology) Of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
(pathology) Of or relating to spastic paralysis.
(slang, pejorative) Clumsy.
(slang, pejorative) Hyperactive, excited, and acting in a random manner.
A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
(slang, offensive) A stupid, clumsy person.
* I'm Alan Partridge'' (TV series), ''To Kill a Mocking Alan
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 spastic and null
is that spastic is a person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective spastic
is (pathology) of, relating to, or affected by spasm.spastic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
- Alan Partridge: Yep.
- Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
- Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic ! You're a mentalist!
Derived terms
* spack * spacker * spaz, spazzUsage notes
The word is perceived as relatively inoffensive in the United States, but extremely offensive in the United Kingdom.References
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*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.