Snip vs Null - What's the difference?
snip | null |
To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
To break off; to snatch away.
* Daniel Defoe
(informal) To circumcise.
* 2001 , David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century , John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ISBN 0470841338,
* 2008 , Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish , Adams Media (2008), ISBN 9781598698565,
* 2012 , Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis , Square Peg (2012), ISBN 9780224095532,
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The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
A vasectomy.
A small or weak person, especially a young one.
* 2010 — Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows , Hachette UK, 2010 ISBN 1408313723.
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
(obsolete, slang) A tailor.
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 snip and null
is that snip is the act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb snip
is to cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.snip
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
- The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores but I snipped some of it for my own share.
page 72:
- Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped .
page 150:
- His children, however, were not snipped , possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.
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- By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped , but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.
Noun
(en noun)- That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
- 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'
- (Nares)
- (Charles Kingsley)
Derived terms
* snipper * snippyAnagrams
* * * *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.