Popper vs Null - What's the difference?
popper | null |
One who pops.
(label) A dagger.
* 14thC , '', 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) ''Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer , Part 2,
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
(label) A capsule of amyl nitrite for recreational use as a sexual stimulant.
(label) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing.
A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
A stuffed and usually breaded .
(label) A juice box.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Advice on Skiing Europe
, group=aus.snow
, author=Richard Harrowell
, date=September 5
, year=1997
, passage=Again buy your own food - for lunch you get some tomato, some Jambon Fume (proscuitto) and a baguette along with some poppers and your(sic) have a feast.
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 popper
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.popper
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)page 468,
- A joly popper baar he in his pouche ; / Ther was no man for peril dorste him touche.
Synonyms
* (twisted string tied to the end of a whip) cracker * (one of a pair of interlocking discs used instead of buttons) snap, snap fastener, press studDerived terms
* air popper * cherry-popper * party popper * pill popperEtymology 2
From , a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.Noun
(en noun)citationEnglish agent nouns
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.