Fouled vs Null - What's the difference?
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(foul)
Covered with, or containing unclean matter; polluted; nasty; defiled
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, title= obscene or profane; abusive.
Hateful; detestable; unpleasant
* Milton
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
(obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
* Shakespeare
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
* Shakespeare
Not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating.
(nautical) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; - opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
To make dirty.
To besmirch.
To clog or obstruct.
(nautical) To entangle.
(basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
(baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
To become clogged.
To become entangled.
(basketball) To commit a foul.
(baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
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Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}} (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
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 fouled
is (foul).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fouled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*foul
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(er)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
- Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
- So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "foul" is often applied: play, ball, language, breath, smell, odor, water, weather, deed.Synonyms
* shameful; odious; wretchedDerived terms
* afoul * befoul * fall foul * nonfoul * nonfoulingEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- to foul the face or hands with mire
- She's fouled her diaper.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- The hair has fouled the drain.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- ''The drain fouled .
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- Jones fouled for strike one.
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.
Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}
- Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
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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.