Stickhandled vs Null - What's the difference?
stickhandled | null |
(stickhandle)
(transitive, intransitive, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) To maintain individual possession of the puck or ball by controlling it with movements of one's stick, especially to do so in a skillful manner.
*2008 , Dave Stubbs, "
(chiefly, Canada, by extension) To deal capably and swiftly with a situation, especially in a manner which deflects potential problems.
*2008 , "
*:He has ducked questions in Parliament on everything from Afghan detainees to Radarsat 2, leaving them to be stickhandled by other ministers.
*2008 , Diane Francis, "
*:Obama, on the other hand, stickhandled his preacher problem and retained his poise and dignity.
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 a verb stickhandled
is (stickhandle).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stickhandled
English
Verb
(head)stickhandle
English
Verb
(stickhandl)Lots of life left in Bruins," The Gazette (Montreal), 17 Apr (retrieved May 13 2008):
- Kovalev regained possession of the puck and stickhandled at full speed into neutral-zone open ice.
Editorial: Hillier goes, not Bernier, Toronto Star , 16 Apr. (retrieved 13 May 2008):
Obama vs McCain. Finally," National Post (Canada), 8 May (retrieved 13 May 2008):
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.