Language vs Null - What's the difference?
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This person is saying "hello" in American sign language . }} (wikipedia language) (lb) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
* 1867', ''Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe'', quoted in '''1983 in ''History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 (ISBN 0913580856), page 240:
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(lb) The ability to communicate using words.
(lb) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
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The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
* 2001 , Eugene C. Kennedy, ?Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor (ISBN 0824519132):
A body of sounds, signs and signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
* 2015 , Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages (ISBN 3319133144), page 94:
(lb) Manner of expression.
* (rfdate) Cowper:
(lb) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
(lb) Profanity.
*{{quote-book, page=500, year=1978, author=James Carroll
, title= To communicate by language; to express in language.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
* 1896 , William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect , page 79:
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 language and null
is that language is (lb) a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication or language can be a languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb language
is to communicate by language; to express in language.language
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) language, from (etyl) language, from .Noun
{{examples-right, The English Wiktionary uses the English language' to define words from all of the world's ' languages .This person is saying "hello" in American sign language . }} (wikipedia language)
- Hence the natural language' of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a ' language , capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
The History of the Caliph Vathek, passage=No language could express his rage and despair.}}
- Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language .
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language , he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages' to distinguish them from pointers in ' languages like C and C++.
- Their language simple, as their manners meek,
Mortal Friends, isbn=0440157897 , passage="Where the hell is Horace?" ΒΆ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language ."}}
Synonyms
* (form of communication) tongue, speech (spoken language) * (vocabulary of a particular field) lingo (colloquial), jargon, terminology, phraseology, parlance * (computer language) computer language, programming language, machine language * (particular words used) phrasing, wording, terminologyDerived terms
* artificial language * auxiliary language * bad language * body language * computing language * constructed language * endangered language * extinct language * foreign language * formal language * foul language * international language * language barrier * language code * language cop * language death * language extinction * language family * language lab, language laboratory * language model * language of flowers * language planning * language police * language pollution * language processing * language school * language shift * language technology * language transfer * languaging * machine language * mathematical language * mind one's language * natural language * pattern language * programming language * private language * secular language * sign language * speak someone's language * standard language * vehicular language * vernacular languageVerb
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
See also
* lexis, term, word * bilingual * linguistics * multilingual * trilingualEtymology 2
Alteration of (m).Noun
(en noun)- A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language'.
Statistics
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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.