Stunt vs Null - What's the difference?
stunt | null |
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
(archaic) skill
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
(cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
(intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
* Hussein Fatal (Bruce Washington), I Don't Like That (rap song)
A check in growth.
That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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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 stunt and null
is that stunt is stunt while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stunt
English
Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."
Derived terms
* publicity stunt * stunt double * stuntman * stuntperson * stuntwomanEtymology 2
From dialectal . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
- I don't like his style, and he always stuntin' .
Noun
(en noun)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.