Googly vs Null - What's the difference?
googly | null |
(cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
* 1904 , , How We Recovered the Ashes'', quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
Of the eyes, bulging.
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 googly and null
is that googly is (cricket) a ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective googly
is of the eyes, bulging.googly
English
Noun
(wikipedia googly) (googlies)- can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies , as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.
Synonyms
* bosie or bosey * wrong ’unDerived terms
* bowl a googlySee also
* chinaman * cutter * doosra * full toss * inswing * leg break * off-break * outswing * screwball grip * seamer * yorkerAdjective
(er)See also
* googly-eyed * googly eyes * google * googolnull
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.