Sibilant vs Null - What's the difference?
sibilant | null |
Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash'' or ''surge .
* 1960 : Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
(phonetics) A hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.
* 1955 : H. A. Gleason, An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics , page 194, section 14.7
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 sibilant and null
is that sibilant is (phonetics) a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge' while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective sibilant
is characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash'' or ''surge .sibilant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
"S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
Derived terms
* sibilantlyNoun
(en noun)- Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants .
Derived terms
* shibilantSynonyms
* (phonetics) groove fricativenull
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.