Knaps vs Null - What's the difference?
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(knap)
To shape a vitreous mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.) by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point.
To rap or strike sharply.
*1820 ,
*:Some entered the ring in very bad condition, and immediately got a-piping, like hot mutton pies - fell on their own blows, and knapped it every round, till they shewed the white feather and bolted.
*1977 , Marilynne K. Roach, Encounters with the Invisible World , page 10, ISBN 0690012772.
*:"That will be sixpence," he said without looking up. She knapped her lips together and turned on her heel without another word.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
* Dr. H. More:
* Psalms xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer):
* 1821 , John Clare, "The Village Minstrel":
To make a sound of snapping.
A sharp blow or slap.
*2012 , Andrew Ashenden, Basics of Stage Combat: Unarmed , ISBN 1612330711.
*:It tells the audience the punch was thrown, they hear a knap , and the victim is 'injured'.
(en noun) (chiefly dialect )
A protuberance; a swelling; a knob.
The crest of a hill
A small hill
* Holland
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 verb knaps
is (knap).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.knaps
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----knap
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) knappen, an onomatopeiaVerb
(knapp)- (Francis Bacon)
The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, volume 8, no.43, page 81, October 1820.
- He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth.
- He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder.
- "Horses..turn'd to knap each other at their ease."
- (Wiseman)
Usage notes
(to shape a vitreous mineral'') In modern usage ''knap is restricted to the specific technique of percussion flaking whereby flakes are removed across an entire face or facet leaving a conchoidal fracture. It is distinguished from the more general verb (chip) and is different from "carve" (removing only part of a face), and "cleave" (breaking along a natural plane). The term is used in archaeology for the production of flaked stone tools and in gunsmithing for the production of gunflints. Knap is rarely used in stonemasonry except to denote fine chipping done with smaller hammers but without the chisel.Synonyms
* (break flakes from a mineral) chipDerived terms
* knapperSee also
* conchoidal * flake * hinge * pressure flakingNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) , akin to cnotta 'knot'Noun
- the highest part and knap of the same island
null
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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.