Roller vs Null - What's the difference?
roller | null |
(lb) Anything that rolls.
#Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
#A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller".
#(lb) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
#A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
#An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
#One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
#A roller towel.
#A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
#Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves.
#Any of the small ground snakes of the family .
A long wide bandage used in surgery.
A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) A bird.
#A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler).
#Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
(also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
The police (old blues slang).
A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
*2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 69:
*:I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller . The names of the writers went on for ever.
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 roller
is (slang) a rolls-royce car.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.roller
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* light roller * heavy roller * hair roller * high roller * paint roller * road roller * roller bearing * roller bed * roller blade, rollerblade * roller coaster * roller shutter * roller skate * steam roller, steamrollerAnagrams
* English 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.