Dab vs Null - What's the difference?
dab | null |
To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
* S. Sharp
To apply a substance in this way.
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
* Sir T. More
To apply
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
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(AAVE) A soft, playful given in greeting or approval.
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A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
(chiefly, in the plural, dated, British) Fingerprint.
A small amount of .
With a dab, or sudden contact.
One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
* Goldsmith
A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially ? a flounder.
(US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus .
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 dab and null
is that dab is baptism (christian sacrament with water) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dab
English
(wikipedia dab)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(dabb)- I dabbed my face with a towel.
- A sore should only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
- He dabbed moisturizing liquid on his face.
- to dab him in the neck
Noun
(en noun)- page 197: I step closer to Profit and draw in a deep, steadying breath while the brothers exchange dabs . “What's up, fam? I see you finally made it.”
Coordinate terms
* fistbump, high fiveAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
Perhaps corrupted from adept.Noun
(en noun)- One excels at a plan or the title page, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dab handEtymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)References
* Oxford English Dictionary (1989)Anagrams
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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.