Deadeye vs Null - What's the difference?
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Very accurate with shooting or throwing.
* {{quote-news, year=1961, date=November 2, author=Jerry Green, title=Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability, work=The Milwaukee Sentinel
, passage=Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.}}
* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=November 15, author=Alan Shipnuck, title=10 Ucla, work=Sports Illustrated
, passage=Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Gerald Vizenor, title=Father Meme, publisher=University of New Mexico Press, isbn=978-0-8623-4515-8
, passage=The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.}}
About a stare: cold; unfriendly.
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 28, author=Emma Field, title=Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London, work=The Independent
, passage=The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 10, author=Manohla Dargis, title=The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional, work=New York Times
, passage=Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare
(nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
A very accurate marksman.
* {{quote-book, year=1989, author=Tobias Wolff, title=This Boy's Life: A Memoir
, passage=He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye .}}
(uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
* {{quote-book, year=1990, author=Ron Chernow, title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
, passage=He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Ann Rowe Seaman, title=Swaggart: The Unathorized Biography of an American Evangelist
, passage=Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Lilly Paige White, title=Manny Lesko: The Erotic History of Estelle Antoinette Francine Chevalier, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=978-0595223923
, passage=Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry (SIC); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.}}
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 deadeye and null
is that deadeye is (nautical) a wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective deadeye
is very accurate with shooting or throwing.deadeye
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
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(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.