Standing vs Null - What's the difference?
standing | null |
; in the process of coming to an upright position.
* 1991 ,
Erect, not cut down.
Performed from an erect position.
Remaining in force or status.
Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
Not movable; fixed.
Position or reputation in society or a profession: "He does not have much of a standing as a chemist ".
Duration.
The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
(sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list: "After their last win, their standing went up three places ".
(British) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
* 1992 , P.D. James, The Children of Men , page 28:
* 2000 , Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor , page 149:
(legal) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
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 verbs the difference between standing and null
is that standing is present participle of lang=en; in the process of coming to an upright position while null is to nullify; to annul.As adjectives the difference between standing and null
is that standing is erect, not cut down while null is having no validity, "null and void.As nouns the difference between standing and null
is that standing is position or reputation in society or a profession: "He does not have much of a standing as a chemist" while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.standing
English
Verb
(head)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Adjective
(-)- standing ovation
- standing committee
- standing water
- a standing colour
- a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
- the standing rigging of a ship
Translations
(upright) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom) (permanent) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom) (water) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom)Derived terms
* standing joke * standing order * standing ovation * standing seam * standing waveAntonyms
* (stagnant) moving, working (committees )Noun
(en noun)- a member of long standing
- I will provide you a good standing to see his entry. — Francis Bacon.
- I think in deep mire, where there is no standing . — Psalms lxix. 2.
- "There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."
- "The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing , and waste."
- He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.
Derived terms
* class standing * hard standing * good standingStatistics
* ----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.