Snitch vs Null - What's the difference?
snitch | null |
To steal, quickly and quietly.
To inform on.
(slang) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
A thief.
An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
(rft-sense) (British) A nose.
* 1897 , W.S. Maugham, , chapter 1
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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 snitch and null
is that snitch is a thief while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb snitch
is to steal, quickly and quietly.snitch
English
Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'
- 'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "
citation, isbn=9780142180044 , page=96 , passage=He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch .}}
citation, isbn=9780226757452 , page=158 , passage= On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.}}
citation, isbn=9780002241014 , page=74 , passage=‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’}}
citation, passage=Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.}}
citation, passage=Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?}}
citation, passage=Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch }}
Synonyms
* (informer) grass, mole, rat, stool pigeonnull
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.