Shinny vs Null - What's the difference?
shinny | null |
To climb in an awkward manner.
(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
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(Canada) Street hockey.
(Canada, informal) Hockey.
Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
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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 shinny and null
is that shinny is (canada) an informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball or shinny can be moonshine (illegal alcohol) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb shinny
is to climb in an awkward manner.shinny
English
Etymology 1
.Verb
Etymology 2
Variation of shinty.Noun
(wikipedia shinny) (-) or shinny hockeyJason Blake], Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study , (University of Toronto Press), ISBN 9780802099846 (cloth-bound), ISBN 9780802097132 (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fAzYyPeoiRUC&pg=PA63&dq=shinny&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EP3EUvaKOK-o0wWyyIC4Bg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCDge#v=onepage&q=shinny&f=false page 63:
- In shinny , everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
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- Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus'' in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny''' is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In ' shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
Etymology 3
Noun
(-)- Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
- He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.
References
*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.