Umlaut vs Null - What's the difference?
umlaut | null |
(linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
(linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic l?siz'' > Old English ''l?s(i) > Modern English lice).
(linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
(orthography) The diacritical mark ( ) placed over a vowel, usually when it indicates such assimilation.
To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
(linguistics) To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
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 umlaut and null
is that umlaut is umlaut while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.umlaut
English
Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* Although this symbol has the same form as the diaeresis/dieresis, it has as a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable. The term for the diacritic mark, as opposed to its function, is trema . * When spelling a German word out loud, one can say “(vowel) umlaut” or “umlauted (vowel)”. e.g. “a umlaut” or “umlauted a” (). (German practice is to say “a Umlaut”, or more commonly to pronounce the letters, so the name of "Ä" is [??], just as "A" is [a?] and "B" is [be?].) * In alphabetic orders, "ä, ö, ü" are treated as "a, o, u" in German (so the word comes directly after the word lugen). In other languages, such as Swedish, the umlaut letters may have their own position in the alphabet. * The usual English plural is umlauts, but the form umlaute (after the German) has seen some use. It is quite rare, however.Synonyms
* (orthography) (l) * (linguistics) (l)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- an umlauting vowel
See also
* diaeresis, dieresisAnagrams
* ----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.