Spanker vs Null - What's the difference?
spanker | null |
Someone who spanks.
An instrument used to give someone a spanking or spank, such as a paddle.
(nautical) A fore and aft gaff-rigged sail on the aft-most mast of a square-rigged vessel.
(dated, music) A musician who plays his instrument well.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A small coin.
* 1772 , The Town and Country Magazine (volume 4, page 344)
(dated) One who takes long, quick strides in walking.
(dated) A swift horse.
(dated) Something very large, or larger than usual; a whopper.
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 spanker and null
is that spanker is someone who spanks while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.spanker
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)
- Egad, Jack, I am glad to see you, for I want a few spankers .
Synonyms
* (gaff-rigged sail) blooper, tallboyDerived terms
* plank spankernull
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.