Bumper vs Null - What's the difference?
bumper | null |
(obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
* 1818 , Keats, :
*:Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—
*:O smile among the shades, for this is fame!
* 1859 , Dickens, A tale of two cities ,
(colloquial) Anything large or successful (now usually attributively).
(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender
Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact
* The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
Someone or something that bumps.
(cricket) A bouncer.
(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
(slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
(colloquial) Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
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 bumper and null
is that bumper is (obsolete) a drinking vessel filled to the brim while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective bumper
is (colloquial) large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.bumper
English
Noun
(en noun)- they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
- Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers , looking at his friend.
Adjective
(-)- We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
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.