What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Skeets vs Null - What's the difference?

skeets | null |

As a verb skeets

is (skeet).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

skeets

English

Verb

(head)
  • (skeet)

  • skeet

    English

    Etymology 1

    Pseudoarchaic alteration of (shoot), perhaps with reference to Old Norse ."skeet." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 01 Jun. 2013. .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
  • (countable, poker) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
  • (uncountable, slang, African American Vernacular English) The ejaculation of sperm.
  • (nautical) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
  • (countable, Newfoundland, slang) A loud, disruptive and poorly educated person.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shoot or spray (used of fluids).
  • (African American Vernacular English) To ejaculate.
  • Synonyms
    * squirt
    Quotations
    * 2004, Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618526412&id=z_Pvxz9iRJ0C&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&sig=xDf759LIfxpSur7qIAQk1rPrgy4] *: ‘Aoow! You skeeted the water right in my ear. It’s busted my eardrum. I can’t even hear.’ *: ‘Gimme here. Let me skeet some.’ * 2004, Camika C Spencer, He Had It Coming [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312323344&id=2YZFOCk3gFYC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&sig=G0hVYCNEWHkjlJ-PhFJFQQu2UkE] *: When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Manx) news or gossip
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Manx) to look through the front windows of somebody else's house
  • Anagrams

    *

    References

    ----

    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 ----