u – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
u
n.
21st letter of the alphabet
pron.
(Informal) abbreviated form of the personal pronoun "you"
U
n.
(Japanese) Usagi, "hare", Chinese zodiac sign
U
Ú
Ú or
ú (
U with
acute) is a
Latin letter used in the
Czech,
Faroese,
Hungarian,
Icelandic, and
Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in
Dutch,
Irish,
Occitan,
Pinyin,
Portuguese,
Spanish,
Italian,
Galician, and
Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".
Û
Ü
Ü, or
ü, is a character that typically represents a
close front rounded vowel . It is classified as a separate letter in several extended
Latin alphabets, or alternatively as the letter
U with an
umlaut/
diaeresis in
Azerbaijani,
Catalan,
Estonian,
French,
Galician,
German,
Hungarian,
Occitan,
Spanish,
Turkish and
Turkmen.
Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key that originally pushed the
typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back the text after that position by one position.
Caron
A
caron or
háček (; from
Czech háček ) or
mäkčeň (; from
Slovak mäkčeň or ), also known as a
wedge,
inverted circumflex,
inverted hat, is a
diacritic ( ˇ ) placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical
palatalization,
iotation, or
postalveolar pronunciation in the orthography of some
Baltic,
Slavic,
Finnic,
Samic,
Berber and other languages. The caron also indicates the third
tone (falling and then rising) in the
Pinyin romanization of
Mandarin Chinese.
Double acute accent
The
double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a
diacritic mark of the Latin script. It is used primarily in
written Hungarian, and consequently is sometimes referred to by typographers as
Hungarumlaut. The signs formed with diacritic marks are letters in their own right in the Hungarian alphabet (for instance, they are separate letters for the purpose of
collation).
Grave accent
The
grave accent (
` ) ( or ) is a
diacritical mark used in many written languages, including
Breton,
Catalan,
Corsican,
Dutch,
French,
Greek (until 1982; see
polytonic orthography),
Haitian Creole,
Italian,
Mohawk,
Norwegian,
Occitan,
Portuguese,
Ligurian,
Scottish Gaelic,
Vietnamese,
Welsh,
Romansh and
Yoruba.
Macron
A
macron is a
diacritical mark, a straight bar placed above a letter, usually a
vowel. Its name derives from the
Greek (
makrón), meaning "long", and was originally used to mark long or heavy
syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a
long vowel. In the
International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-
tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon .
Ogonek
Ring (diacritic)
Tilde
The
tilde (;
˜ or
~) is a
grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from
Spanish, which in turn came from the
Latin , meaning "title" or "superscription".
U (disambiguation)
U is the twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet.
Ustaše
The
Ustaše , also known as "Ustashe", "Ustashas", and "Ustashi", were members of the
Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement , a
Croatian fascist,
ultranationalist and
terrorist organization, active, in its original form, between 1929 and 1945. Its members murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma (Gypsies) and anti-fascist or dissident Croats in
Yugoslavia during World War II.
U
Noun
1. a nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
(synonym) uracil
(hypernym) nucleotide
(substance-holonym) ribonucleic acid, RNA
2. a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
(synonym) uranium, atomic number 92
(hypernym) metallic element, metal
(hyponym) uranium 235
(substance-holonym) uraninite, pitchblende
3. the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet
u
Adjective
1. (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use
(similar) upper-class
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
U (das)
n.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet
Ü (das)
n.
u umlaut, German vocal
u. (und)
and, with, together with; also, too
u
nm.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet
