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Sweeper vs Null - What's the difference?

sweeper | null |

As nouns the difference between sweeper and null

is that sweeper is one who sweeps floors or chimneys while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

sweeper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who sweeps floors or chimneys
  • A detector (for mines)
  • A small, tropical marine perciform fish of the family , typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
  • (football) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper
  • (curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
  • (cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots
  • (cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position
  • A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
  • * ..tree will be hanging over the water about canoe level (a sweeper ).. Basic Essentials Canoe Paddling, 3rd - Page 62
  • * So named because they can sweep passengers from a boat, they can also capsize a canoe, especially when paddlers lean too far away from the sweeper .. River Running: Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing, Rafting - Page 102
  • See also

    minesweeper

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----