Strap vs Null - What's the difference?
strap | null |
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
* (rfdate) Addison:
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
# (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
# (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
(botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
(slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
To fasten or bind with a strap.
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
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 strap and null
is that strap is a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb strap
is to beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.strap
English
(wikipedia strap)Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
- A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap .
Derived terms
* boot strap * shawl strap * stirrup strap * strapless * strap beamVerb
Derived terms
* strap on a pair * strap-onAnagrams
*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.