Squeeze vs Null - What's the difference?
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To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place
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To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty
To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices
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(figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
* L'Estrange
(baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting
A difficult position
A traversal of a narrow passage
A hug or other affectionate grasp
(slang) A romantic partner
(baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third
(epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
(archaic) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China.
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 squeeze and null
is that squeeze is a difficult position while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb squeeze
is to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.squeeze
English
Verb
(squeez)- I squeezed the ball between my hands.
- Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.
- "Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.
- I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.
- Can you squeeze through that gap?
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- Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.
- He squeezed some money out of his wallet.
- I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden.
- Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "squeeze") * squeezable * squeezebox * squeeze in * squeeze out * squeezer * squeezy * unsqueezeNoun
(en noun)- I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.
- It was a tight squeeze , but I got through to the next section of the cave.
- a gentle squeeze on the arm
- I want to be your main squeeze
- The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze .
- The light not being good enough for photography, I took a squeeze of the stone.
See also
* squash * squeegee * squish * margin squeezenull
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.