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Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera ''Gallinago'', ''Lymnocryptes'' and ''Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
A fool; a blockhead.
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A shot fired from a concealed place.
(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
(lb) To hunt snipe.
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(lb) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
(lb) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
(lb) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.
(slang) A cigarette butt.
An animated promotional logo during a television show.
A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.
A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.
(lb) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
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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 snipe and null
is that snipe is any of various limicoline game birds of the genera ''gallinago'', ''lymnocryptes'' and ''coenocorypha in the family scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak or snipe can be (slang) a cigarette butt or snipe can be a sharp, clever answer; sarcasm while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb snipe
is (lb) to hunt snipe or snipe can be (lb) to make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.snipe
English
(wikipedia snipe)Etymology 1
(etyl) "type of bird", from (etyl) The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe'' was dubbed a "sniper". The term ''sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".'>citationNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* snipebill * snipefish * snipe hunt * snipelikeSee also
* snipe huntVerb
Derived terms
* sniperEtymology 2
Probably from or a cognateNoun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Either from (m) or a figurative development from Etymology 1Verb
(en-verb)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
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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.