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Of or pertaining to England or its people.
English-language; of or pertaining to the English language.
Of or pertaining to an Englishman or Englishwoman.
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Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
(Amish) Non-Amish.
(collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
(Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish.
(surname)
One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
The English-language term or expression for something.
Specific language or wording; a text or statements in speech, whether a translation or otherwise.
(countable) A regional type of spoken and or written English; a dialect.
(printing, dated) A kind of type, in size between pica and great primer.
(North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
(archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
*, page 214 (2001 reprint):
*:severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
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 english and null
is that english is (us) spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.english
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
- English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
Usage notes
* The name of the language, English , when it means "the English language", does not assume an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!" * The people as a collective noun require the definite article "the" or a demonstrative adjective. Hence: "The English are coming!" or "Oh, those English, always drinking their tea..."Noun
(en-noun)- My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.
- How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English ?
- The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear.
- Put more English on the ball.
Verb
(es)Derived terms
* African American Vernacular English * American English * Australian English * BBC English * British English * Canadian English * Commonwealth English * Early Modern English * Elizabethan English * English Bluebell * English Channel * English basement * English bond * English breakfast * English breakfast tea * English flute * English garden * English horn * English Latin * English mile * English muffin * English pale * English pea * English pease * English plantain * English plus * English rhubarb * English saddle * English sonnet * English sparrow * English studies * English vice * English walnut * English wheat * Englishman * Englishmen * Englishness * Englishwoman * Englishwomen * Estuary English * full English * full English breakfast * gone English * Hiberno-English * Indian English * King's English * Korean English * Medieval English * Middle English * Modern English * Multicultural London English * Newfoundland English * New Zealand English * Old English * Old English Sheepdog * Queen's English * Scottish English * South African English * Standard English * White English Bulldog * do you speak English?See also
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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.