Specialty vs Null - What's the difference?
specialty | null |
That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
* Charles Kingsley:
(obsolete) particularity
* Shakespeare:
A particular or peculiar case.
An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
(legal) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
* Shakespeare
* Joseph Chitty
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 specialty and null
is that specialty is that in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.specialty
English
Alternative forms
* specialityNoun
(specialties)- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.
- Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
- (Bouvier)
- Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.
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.