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steamer | null |

As nouns the difference between steamer and null

is that steamer is (cookware) a cooking appliance that cooks by steaming while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

steamer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cookware) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
  • A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
  • A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
  • A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
  • A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
  • A dish of steamed clams.
  • Any species of the duck genus Tachyeres , of which all four species occur in South America, and three are flightless.
  • (Australia, food, obsolete) A food made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices; popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s .
  • * “Melville”, Australia'', quoted in 1864''', Edward Abbott, ''The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as Well as for the ‘Upper Ten Thousand’'', London, in turn quoted in '''1998 , Colin Bannerman, et al., ''Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia?s Culinary History , (publisher), ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 14,
  • Of all the dishes ever brought to table, nothing equals that of the steamer .
  • (obsolete) A steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913).
  • (horse racing) A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.
  • (UK, crime, slang) Member of a youth gang who engages in robbing and escaping as a large group.
  • (UK, sex, slang) Oral sex performed on a man.
  • (UK, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
  • (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  • (US, gambling, slang) A gambler who increases a wager after losing.
  • (UK, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
  • Synonyms

    * (homosexual man) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see * (drinking session) bender, binge, carouse, piss-up

    Derived terms

    * Cleveland steamer * steamer chair

    See also

    * (Tachyeres)

    References

    * *

    Anagrams

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----