Slice vs Null - What's the difference?
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That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
amount
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool
, work=BBC
A piece of pizza.
* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(soccer)
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 22
, author=Sam Sheringham
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
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 slice and null
is that slice is that which is thin and broad while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb slice
is to cut into slices.slice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
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- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
citation, page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}
Derived terms
* sliceableExternal links
* (commonslite)Anagrams
* * ----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.