Flank vs Null - What's the difference?
flank | null |
(nautical) Maximum (of speed). Historically faster than full'' speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack (''All ahead flank! ).
(anatomy) The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
(military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
The side of something, in general senses.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
The outermost strip of a road.
(soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 23
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom
, work=BBC
That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
To attack the flank(s) of something.
To defend the flank(s) of something.
To place to the side(s) of something.
* Pitt
To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side.)
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 flank and null
is that flank is flank while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.flank
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.
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Synonyms
* (all senses) side * (side of formation) wingDerived terms
* (flesh between the last rib and the hip) flank steakCoordinate terms
* (cut of meat from the flank of an animal) fajitaVerb
(en verb)- Stately colonnades are flanked with trees.
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.