Lob vs Null - What's the difference?
lob | null |
To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
(colloquial) To throw.
(colloquial) To put, place
(sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
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(obsolete) To let fall heavily or lazily.
* Shakespeare
(ball sports ) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
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a lump
* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=M.L. Kenny, title=The fortunes of Maurice Cronin, page=126
, passage=And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I -- }}
(obsolete) a country bumpkin, clown
* {{quote-book, 1594, , section=Act II Scene I
, passage=Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon. }}
* {{quote-book, 1694,
, passage=THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market
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 lob and null
is that lob is (computing|databases) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lob
English
Etymology 1
Verb
- The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
- The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
- Lob it in the pot.
citation, page= , passage=Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post. }}
- And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.
Noun
(en noun)- The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
citation, page= , passage=Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left. }}
Derived terms
* lob wedgeEtymology 2
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation
Etymology 3
(etyl) lubbe.Etymology 4
Anagrams
* ----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.