Wheel vs Null - What's the difference?
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A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
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# (label) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
# A spinning wheel.
# A potter's wheel.
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#* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
# (heraldiccharge) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
(label) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(label) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
(label) Wheel rim.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
(label) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(intransitive, or, transitive) To roll along as on wheels.
To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
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To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
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* Milton
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 wheel and null
is that wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb wheel
is (intransitive|or|transitive) to roll along as on wheels.wheel
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels .
- Turn, turn, my wheel ! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
- (Milton)
- According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.
- [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel .
Synonyms
* (instrument of torture) breaking wheel * (wheel rim) rimDerived terms
* balance wheel * behind the wheel * big wheel * breaking wheel * break on the wheel * buffing wheel * cartwheel * car wheel * Catherine wheel * click wheel * cog wheel, cogwheel * color wheel, colour wheel * daisy wheel * disk wheel * driving wheel * eighteen-wheeler * escape wheel * Ferris wheel * fifth wheel * flywheel * foundling wheel * four-wheel * four-wheel drive * freewheel * freewheeling * front-wheel drive * gear wheel, gearwheel * Geneva wheel * grease the wheels * hell on wheels * idle wheel * kick wheel * lantern wheel * leading wheel * mag wheel * meals on wheels * mill wheel * motorcycle wheel * paddle wheel * pinwheel * planet wheel * potter's wheel * prayer wheel * print wheel * ratchet wheel * reinvent the wheel * roulette wheel * scoop wheel, scoopwheel * skateboard wheel * spinning wheel * spin one's wheels * sprocket wheel * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * steel wheel * steering wheel * stern-wheeler * take the wheel * the wheel * three-wheeler * tide wheel * trailing wheel * training wheels * two-wheeler * wagon wheel * water wheel * wheel and axle * wheelbarrow * wheelbase * wheel breadth * wheelchair * wheel clamp * wheeled * wheelhouse * wheelie * wheelie bin * the wheels fell off * wheel of Fortune * wheel of life * wheel rim * wheels * wheelspin * wheel within a wheel * wheelwright * wheely * worm wheelSee also
* (wikipedia "wheel")References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- The vulture wheeled above us.
- The beetle wheels her droning flight.
- Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled / Her motions, as the great first mover's hand / First wheeled their course.
Derived terms
* wheel around * wheel away * word-wheelingnull
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.