Muscle vs Null - What's the difference?
muscle | null |
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
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(uncountable, usually plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
(uncountable, figurative) Strength, force.
* 2010 , Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context , page 81
* 2013 , John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look , page 15
(uncountable, figurative) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
* 1985 — , The Infinity Doctors , p 34
To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
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 an adjective muscle
is muscled, muscly, muscular.As a verb muscle
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.muscle
English
(wikipedia muscle)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
- His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles . They seemed to ripple and string tense.
- You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
- It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
- It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle .
Derived terms
* beer muscles * cardiac muscle * gym muscles * involuntary muscle * make a muscle * * musclebound * muscle boy * muscle car * muscled * muscledom * muscle dysmorphia * muscleful * muscle in on * muscleless * muscleman * muscle relaxant * muscle shirt * musclesome * muscle tone * muscle up * muscle-up * muscled up * muscular * muscularity * musculature * muscly * skeletal muscle * smooth muscle * voluntary muscleSee also
* myology * myotomyVerb
(muscl)- He muscled his way through the crowd.
- Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
Derived terms
* outmusclenull
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.