Bandiest vs Null - What's the difference?
bandiest | null |
(archaic) (bandy)
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
To use or pass about casually.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=4 * I. Watts
To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
* 1663 ,
* Cudworth
Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
* 1794, , third stanza
(sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
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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 a verb bandiest
is (archaic) (bandy).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bandiest
English
Verb
(head)bandy
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with banter.Verb
.- to bandy words (with somebody)
citation, passage=Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]}}
- to have one's name bandied about (or around)
- Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
- For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry
- like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us by rackets from without
Etymology 2
From (etyl) bandyAdjective
(-)- Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
Etymology 3
Possibly from the (etyl) word bando most likely derived from the (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bandy) (-)- (Johnson)
Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
(bandies)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.