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hob | null |
A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
(obsolete) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
(British) The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
*1913 , Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,
*:And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob , finally boil.
A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits
A male ferret.
The hub of a wheel.
To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
(label) a fairy; a sprite; an elf
(label) a countryman; a rustic or yokel
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 a proper noun hob
is (label) a nickname for robin or robert.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hob
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Smart)
- (Washington)
Synonyms
* (cooking surface) cooktop, stovetop, range (US)Verb
(hobb) (Gear cutting) (Hobbing)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (Hob) (a diminutive of (Robin), an (etyl) diminutive of (Robert)), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare (hobgoblin); see (robin).Noun
(en noun)- From elves, hobs , and fairies, Defend us, good Heaven! — Beaumont and Fletcher.
- (Nares)
Derived terms
* play hob with, raise hobReferences
*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.