Scoop vs Null - What's the difference?
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Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
A covered opening in an automobile's hood which allows cold air to enter the area beneath the hood.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
* J. R. Drake
A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
A special spinal board used by EMS staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients.
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
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To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
To consume an alcoholic beverage.
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 scoop and null
is that scoop is any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb scoop
is to lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.scoop
English
Noun
(wikipedia scoop) (en noun)- She kept a scoop in the dog food.
- Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
- I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
- He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
- Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
Synonyms
* (tool) scooper * (amount held by a scoop) scoopfulDerived terms
* apple-scoop * butter scoop * cheese-scoop * ice-cream scoop * poop scoop * scoop bonnet * scoop driver * scoopful * scoop neck * scoop neckline * scoop-net * scoop wheel * scoopyVerb
(en verb)- He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
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- The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
- He was caught scooping in the local park.
Derived terms
* scooped * scooper * scoop in * scooping * scoop out * scoop the kitty * scoop the pool * scoop upAnagrams
* ----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.