Slabber vs Null - What's the difference?
slabber | null |
To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
* Arbuthnot
To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
* Tusser
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 slabber and null
is that slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.slabber
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) slaberen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.
- The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
Etymology 2
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.