Dart vs Null - What's the difference?
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard Text, , xviii, 14,
Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
* 1830 , , Sensibility'', ''The Works of Hannah More , Volume 1,
(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
* 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970,
A sudden or fast movement.
* {{quote-news
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(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
* 2013 , The Economist,
A fish; the dace.
(in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 29
, author=Mark Vesty
, title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
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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 noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dart
English
2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.Etymology 1
From (etyl) dart, from (etyl) dart, .Noun
(en noun)- Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
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- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
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- Trucking?s my dart too.
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Nadia Popova
- Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
Derived terms
* dart sacEtymology 2
From (etyl) darten, from the noun (see above).Verb
(en verb)- The sun darts forth his beams.
- Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? -
- The flying man darted eastward.
- The deer darted from the thicket.
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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.