Lapper vs Null - What's the difference?
lapper | null |
One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
* {{quote-book
, year=1913
, author=William Atherton Du Puy
, title= Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker
, chapter=
* {{quote-book
, year=1827
, author=?
, title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
, chapter=
(in combination'') something (especially a race) that is a stated number of laps e.g. ''a 25-lapper
* {{quote-book
, year=2001
, author=Tim Bongard
, title= Richard Petty: The Cars of the King
, chapter=
(sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
* June 2006 , RoadRacingWorld.com -
A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine
(sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.
To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
* {{quote-book
, year=1900?
, author=S.R. Crockett
, title=The Red Axe
, chapter=XXXVII
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 lapper and null
is that lapper is one who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb lapper
is to make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.lapper
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn= , page=? , passage=...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.}}
citation, isbn= , page=470 , passage=The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.}}
citation, isbn= , page=? , passage=...Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.}}
Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
- After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home..
Verb
(en verb)citation, isbn=0543961451 , page=238 , passage=There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.}}
Anagrams
* ---- ==Jèrriais==Synonyms
* (l)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.