Snelled vs Null - What's the difference?
snelled | null |
(snell)
Active, brisk or nimble; lively.
Quick, sudden; sharp.
Quick-witted; witty.
Harsh; severe.
A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.194:
To tie a hook to the end of a fishing line with a snell knot.
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 verb snelled
is (snell).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.snelled
English
Verb
(head)snell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Adjective
(er) (chiefly Scottish)- He is a remarkably snell young lad.
- That horny-handed, snell , peremptory little man. --Dr. J. Brown.
Etymology 2
Origin Unknown.Noun
(en noun)- He tied on new baited snells and recovered the current with the oars.
Verb
(en verb)- Can you show me how to snell a hook?
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.
