Spearhead vs Null - What's the difference?
spearhead | null |
The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign).
The leading military unit in an attack.
(lb) A player who initiates attacking moves.
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, title= To drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.
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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 spearhead and null
is that spearhead is the pointed head, or end, of a spear while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb spearhead
is to drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.spearhead
English
(wikipedia spearhead)Noun
(en noun)Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=England played at a tempo in attack that was too much for Bulgaria, with width provided at various times by Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing and Rooney acting as the potent spearhead .}}
Verb
(en verb)- He spearheaded the entire project from day one.
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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.