Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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null

/nʌl/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms nulls nulling nulled

  1. noun A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  2. noun Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
  3. noun Something that has no force or meaning.
  4. noun (computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  5. noun (computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value. “Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.”
  6. noun One of the beads in nulled work.
  7. noun (statistics) The null hypothesis.
  8. adjective Having no validity; "null and void".
  9. adjective Insignificant.
  10. adjective Absent or non-existent.
  11. adjective (mathematics) Of the null set.
  12. adjective (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
  13. adjective (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
  14. adjective (mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.
  15. verb (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
  16. verb To return to the null position, setting, etc.
  17. verb To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
  18. verb (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
  19. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

invalid nude void immaterial paltry vain base contemptible floccinaucinihilipilificatious foolish for the birds futile frivolous idle ignorable inconsequential inconsiderable indifferent insignificant like a fart in a windstorm nothing nil nix nada aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero

Antonyms

antinull non-null

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  2. noun Something that has no force or meaning.
  3. noun That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.
  4. verb To annul. [Obs.] Milton.

Etymology [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.]

Etymology [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “null”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “null” (best matches first).