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snied | null |

As a verb snied

is (sny).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

snied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sny)
  • (snie)

    • sny

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested in late Middle English; from the (etyl)

    Verb

  • (obsolete, rare, intransitive) (l), (l)

    • References

    * “ †?Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of '''' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??†?Sny,''' ''v.''?''Obs.''?—?1?In 5 '''sny?e.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To move, proceed.?[¶?''a''?'''1400–50 ''Alexander     4095 Þan sny?es þar, out of þat snyth hill.., A burly best. * “ †sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1674; its etymology is unknown.

    Alternative forms

    * ) * (l), sny, (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • , (l), (l), be (l), with (l).
  • * 1913 ,
    • “And did you kill it?”
    “I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ?em.”

    References

    * “ Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??Sny''' (), ''v.''?Now ''dial.''?Forms: 7 '''snithe,''' 9 '''snive;''' 7, 9 '''snie,''' 8–9 '''sny,''' 9 '''snye;''' 7, 9 '''snee.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To abound, swarm, teem, be infested, ''with'' something.?[¶?'''1674''' Ray ''N.C. Words'' 44 To ''Snee'' or ''snie'', to abound or swarm. He ''snies'' with Lice, he swarms with them.?'''1675''' V. Alsop ''Anti-sozzo'' 503 Certainly never did man so snithe with prejudices against Truth.?''c''?'''1746''' J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) ''View Lanc. Dial.'' Gloss., ''Snye'', to swarm.?'''1849''' Howitt ''Year Bk. Country'' 242/32 The villages in the forest sny with children.?'''1882''' ''Echo'' 16 Jan. 4/1 The place literally ‘snives’ with rabbits.?'''1897 J. Prior ''Ripple & Flood     xix, The watter snies wi’ fish. * “ sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 3

    First attested in 1711; its etymology is unknown; compare snying and the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (snies)
  • (shipbuilding) of a wooden (l) or (l).
  • # An upward (l) at the (l) of a plank.
  • # of a wooden (l) from (l) toward its (l) and its (l).

    • References

    * “ Sny, sb.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??Sny''' (), ''sb.''?''Shipbuilding.''?[Cf. Snying ''vbl. sb.'']?(See quots. 1846 and 1875.)?[¶]?'''a.'''?'''1711''' W. Sutherland ''Shipbuild. Assist.'' 54 In working up a round Buttock of a Ship, the lower Edge of the Planks will have a sudden Sny aft.?'''1846''' A. Young ''Naut. Dict.'' 288 In shipbuilding, a plank is said to have sny, when its edge has an upward curve.?[¶?'''b.'''?''c''?'''1850''' ''Rudim. Nav.'' (Weale) 149 The great sny occasioned in full bows..is..to be prevented by introducing steelers.?'''1875 Knight ''Dict. Mech.'' 2232/1 ''Sny     ,..the trend of the lines of a ship upward from amidship toward the bow and the stern. * “ sny, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 4

    First attested with this spelling in 1893; see snye.

    Noun

    (snies)
  • * 1893 , and Other Stories (1896), page unknown
    • “Well, Mars Tom, my idea is like dis. It ain’t no use, we can’t kill dem po’ strangers dat ain’t doin’ us no harm, till we’ve had practice?—?I knows it perfectly well, Mars Tom?—??deed I knows it perfectly well. But ef we takes a’ ax or two, jist you en me en Huck, en slips acrost de river to-night arter de moon’s gone down, en kills dat sick fam’ly dat’s over on the Sny , en burns dey house down, en?—”
  • * 1948 , ), volume 36, page 151
    • The word snye'', ''sny'' or ''snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature.

    References

    * “ snye]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----