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Smake vs Null - What's the difference?

smake | null |

As nouns the difference between smake and null

is that smake is a smack; taste; scent while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb smake

is to smack; taste.

smake

English

Verb

(smak)
  • To smack; taste.
  • *1882 , Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club :
  • Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.
  • * 1893 , Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway :
  • Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.
  • * 1918 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
  • He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.
  • *1922 , Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows :
  • It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.
  • * 2001 , James Joyce, Dubliners :
  • "And what about the address to the King?" said Mr. Lyons, after drinking and smaking his lips.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A smack; taste; scent.
  • * 1831 , Congressional edition:
  • The 15th we came to Hatorask, in thirty-six degrees and a terse, at four fadom, three leagues from the shore, where we might perceive a smake at the place where I left the colony, 1587."
  • * 1856 , Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century :
  • A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.
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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 ----