Working vs Null - What's the difference?
working | null |
(usually plural) Operation; action.
Method of operation.
Fermentation.
(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
That is or are functioning.
That suffices but requires additional work.
In paid employment.
Of or relating to employment.
Enough to allow one to use something.
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 working and null
is that working is (usually plural) operation; action while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb working
is .As an adjective working
is that is or are functioning.working
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) wirking, warking, (etyl) werking, (etyl) Wirkung.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Leave him alone; he's working .
Adjective
(-)- a working ventilator
- a working copy of the script
- working mothers
- the working week
- a working knowledge of computers
Synonyms
* (functioning''): functioning; up (''mainly used of computers ) * (that suffices but requires further work ): draft, provisional, temporary * (in paid employment ): employed, in employment * (of or relating to employment ): work * (enough to allow one to use something ): basicAntonyms
* (functioning''): broken, broken-down, down (''mainly used of computers )References
*Statistics
*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.