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Forehand vs Null - What's the difference?

forehand | null |

As nouns the difference between forehand and null

is that forehand is (racket sports) a stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

forehand

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke
  • (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger
  • All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
  • (Johnson)
  • The chief or most important part.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And, but for ceremony, such a wretch / Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
  • The hand towards the front of the board
  • Synonyms

    * (kind of throw in sports) (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----