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A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals
# Same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
(hunting) A whipper-in.
* 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 27:
(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
Whipped cream.
(nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
(African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
To hit with a whip.
By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
(slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
* 2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
To urge into action.
(nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
* Moxon
(nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
* John Gay
To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
* He whipped the ball at me.
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To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
* Emerson
To snap back and forth like a whip.
* The pennants whipped in the wind.
To move very fast.
* The wind whipped through the valley.
* L'Estrange
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
To move (something) very fast; often with up'', ''out , etc.
* L'Estrange
* Walpole
(roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
(figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
* Shakespeare
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
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 an acronym whip
is (baseball) ; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.whip
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.
Synonyms
* (last for directing animals) crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (lash for corporal punishment) cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (political party enforcer) party whipDerived terms
* bullock-whip * bullwhip * buggy whip * coachwhip * dogwhip * drafting whip * horsewhip * longe whip * party whip * signal whip, signalwhip * snake whip, snakewhip * stockwhip * whipcracking * whip snake * yard whipVerb
(whipp)- The rider whipped the horse.
- I whipped her with a newspaper.
- She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
- to whip eggs or cream
- He whipped the department into shape.
- Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
- to whip a ruffle
- In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
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- whipping their rough surface for a trout
- Two friends, travelling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.
- He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
- She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
- He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
- They would whip me with their fine wits.
- to whip wheat
Synonyms
* flail * flog * knout * lash * quirt * scourge * thrash * threshDerived terms
* whip in * whip off * whipped vote * whipper * whip upReferences
* Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books :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.