Dobber vs Null - What's the difference?
dobber | null |
(US) A tool used to play bingo; a dauber.
(UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav .
(Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).
* 1999 , William De Maria, Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia ,
* 2010 , Lisa Heidke, What Kate Did Next ,
* 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Melbourne ,
(British, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
(British, chiefly, dialect) A large marble.
(US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
* 2007 , William G. Tapply, Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing ,
A dabchick.
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 dobber and null
is that dobber is (us) a tool used to play bingo; a dauber while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dobber
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nikki is such a dobber , she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.
page 16,
- In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers ?
page 125,
- ‘Not only that,’ Graeme continued, ‘but Simone?s a dobber' – and no-one likes a ' dobber , do they, K?’
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- The question was whether the dobber had simply dobbed or whether he had planted the weapons.
page 191,
- In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.
Anagrams
* ----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.