What's the difference between null and swoop?

Null


Definition:

  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  • (n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  • (v. t.) To annul.
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
  • (4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
  • (5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
  • (7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
  • (8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
  • (9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
  • (10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
  • (12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
  • (13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
  • (15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
  • (16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
  • (18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
  • (19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
  • (20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.

Swoop


Definition:

  • (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
  • (n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  • (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
  • (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
  • (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
  • (2) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
  • (3) Osborne's swoop comes on the eve of a heavily anticipated major speech by Ed Miliband on the economy in which he will call for limits on the size of high street banks.
  • (4) Tim Goldsmith, global mining leader at PwC, believes that amid the current market volatility, companies that are flush with cash will swoop on smaller players, which are more vulnerable to market fluctuations and have difficulty raising capital.
  • (5) But the spectacularly successful Sri Lanka-born philanthropist built his fortune through lies, according to federal agents who swooped on him for insider trading in New York yesterday.
  • (6) Yodobashi-Akiba is ideal for shoppers who want to pick up games, electronics and cameras in one fell-swoop.
  • (7) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
  • (8) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
  • (9) The commission said the Belgians forgot to warn the Greek authorities that they were about to swoop until half an hour before the raids.
  • (10) He was killed as armed police swooped and foiled an attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December.
  • (11) Since swooping for the Premier League rights last year (fending off the incumbent partnership of ESPN and Fox, as well as a large bid from the Al Jazeera owned beIN Sports channel) NBC have been aggressively promoting the thoroughness of their coverage, which offers subscribers to their sports network channel NBCSN an additional range of channels showing every game live.
  • (12) The Department for International Development and the Treasury must do more to make sure that their investment in the Horn of Africa is not undone in one fell swoop.
  • (13) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
  • (14) They will make promises and they won’t fulfil them.” Dozens of people were left homeless in 2012 after Lagos authorities swooped and demolished houses and other illegal structures.
  • (15) On stage 1, the first hill that might split the peloton is Buttertubs Pass, now restyled as Côte de Buttertubs, which rises up out of Hawes in North Yorkshire and swoops down into the gorgeous Swaledale valley.
  • (16) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
  • (17) Nonetheless, police with dogs swooped on the pub and ordered the supporters on to a coach back to Stoke.
  • (18) The IRC primarily swoops into the newest crisis zone within 72 hours to deliver medical care and supplies to refugees, before helping them resettle or rebuild.
  • (19) It’s not going to happen in one fell swoop since there are huge interests and jobs at stake, with livelihoods depending on this industry.
  • (20) Good-looking and apparently fearless, he would swoop in to visit German troops in Afghanistan looking like an extra from Top Gun in aviator shades, flight suit and desert boots.