Underdog vs Null - What's the difference?
underdog | null |
A competitor thought unlikely to win.
* 2004: The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
Somebody at a disadvantage.
A high swing wherein the person pushing the swing runs beneath the swing while the person being pushed is at the forward limit of the arc.
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 underdog and null
is that underdog is a competitor thought unlikely to win while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.underdog
English
Noun
(en noun)- In Athens, the Americans are underdogs to the Chinese and the Canadians
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- The visit of a Championship side would not normally send a shiver down their spine but they knew that Wigan were underdogs who would snap at their heels and that they possessed a potent bite if they were not kept on a firm leash.
Antonyms
* favourite, favorite * sure bet * safe bet * top dogSee also
* also-ranAnagrams
* *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.