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Stuns vs Null - What's the difference?

stuns | null |

As a verb stuns

is (stun).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

stuns

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stun)
  • Anagrams

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    stun

    English

    Verb

    (stunn)
  • To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
  • Bill tried to stun the snake by striking it on the head.
    In many European countries cattle have to be stunned before slaughtering.
  • To shock or surprise.
  • The celebrity was stunned to find herself confronted with unfounded allegiations on the front page of a newspaper.
    He stood there stunned , looking at the beautiful, breath-taking sunrise.
  • (snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball
  • Noun

    (-)
  • The condition of being stunned.
  • (billiard, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----