What's the difference between null and widescreen?

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.

Widescreen


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Brazil’s matted grass it felt oddly elevated, oddly widescreen, oddly Brazilian.
  • (2) Email from Resins.Man, showing us it's always okay to be sentimental when it comes to baseball games i've only ever been to one baseball game........ ....at Fenway Park back in '79, and I remember it just like David Lengels photo, pillars, overhanging roof, pitch like a widescreen slot.
  • (3) The Hudl has a high-definition widescreen display, nine hours of video battery life, and 16GB of memory, which can be extended to 48GB.
  • (4) His other forte was as a 1950s director of widescreen colour melodramas often adapted from the fatter, racier bestsellers of the postwar paperback revolution, many of which have developed separate cults of their own.
  • (5) You can rent movies directly on your widescreen TV and you can rent them at DVD quality or you can rent then at high definition quality."
  • (6) Dramas such as Borgen and The West Wing explore widescreen and surround-sound issues that will determine the future of Denmark and the US and the nature of wider society in each of those countries.
  • (7) The 9.3mm thick device has a magnesium case, features a 10.6-inch HD widescreen display, an integrated kickstand and weighs less than a kilo (1.5lbs).
  • (8) Back in the early 1980s, when U2 began to hone their widescreen sound, the quasi-religious undertow of their big music defied the tenor of the downbeat post-punk times.
  • (9) On the second floor the lounge has comfortable chairs, sofa, widescreen HD TV, high tables and stools, a pool table, and pictures of players, while the refectory has a 56-seat auditorium where the squad watch training clips filmed by a pitch-side weather-proof cart that can be stopped during a session for Manuel Pellegrini, the manager, to offer instructions.
  • (10) She is even a fan of the English songwriter Brian Higgins, whose sparkling hits for Girls Aloud are the polar opposite of her widescreen work.
  • (11) I was like, I’ll stand by that one.” All Too Well was taken from 2012’s Red, an album defined by widescreen, wind-machined renderings of heartache, which confirmed that “country” could finally be dropped from her tag of “country-pop” singer.
  • (12) If it's David Lean, we must start with a bold, widescreen establishing shot that sets out our stall.
  • (13) He was said to have been devastated by criticism of his claims (including £1,674 for a sofa and £2,175 for a 46in Sony widescreen high-definition television), and by the fact that former Beirut hostage Terry Waite threatened to stand against him as an "anti-sleaze" candidate.
  • (14) And almost all televisions, short of the now-discontinued Philips cinemascope screens with a very wide 21:9 aspect ratio, use the traditional widescreen format with a 16:9 ratio - which is not wide enough to create distortion in the majority of cases.
  • (15) That cruel Twitter mock-up of England’s squad posing for a World Cup knockout stage photo in front of a widescreen TV is too close to home in every respect.
  • (16) Scenes from Hawaii cover her walls, hula (and rat) figurines line the shelves, and on her desk sits a small wooden sign, which says, “WELCOME TO THE TIKI BAR.” There is also a widescreen TV, on which Dyer likes to watch old movies on mute all day.

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