Smack vs Null - What's the difference?
smack | null |
A distinct flavor.
A slight trace of something; a smattering.
* 1883 ,
(slang) Heroin.
To indicate or suggest something.
* Shakespeare
To have a particular taste.
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a .
A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
A loud kiss.
* Shakespeare
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
* (Benjamin Disraeli)
(New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank)
To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
* 1763 , Robert Lloyd, “A Familiar Epistle” in St. James Magazine :
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
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 smack and null
is that smack is a distinct flavor or smack can be a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a or smack can be a sharp blow; a slap see also: spank while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb smack
is to indicate or suggest something or smack can be to slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.As an adverb smack
is as if with a smack or slap.smack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) smac, smak, smacke, from (etyl) . More at smake, smatch.Noun
(en noun)- He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
- All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
Derived terms
* smack ofEtymology 2
From (etyl) smack (Low German .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From or akin to (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- a clamorous smack
Verb
(en verb)- A horse neighed, and a whip smacked , there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
- But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack , / I find no flavour of the Sack.
Derived terms
* smack-dabAnagrams
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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.