Snifter vs Null - What's the difference?
snifter | null |
A small alcoholic drink.
* 1917 , , The Oakdale Affair , ch. 1:
A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
* 2003 Jan. 20, "
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 snifter and null
is that snifter is a small alcoholic drink while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.snifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter ?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid.
Getting Saucy," Time :
- [H]e springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. . . . Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips—and gives a satisfied smile.
Synonyms
* dram, nip, slug, totnull
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.
