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Nothing - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Nothing : (noun)
1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nil,
nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose
egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip]
2: a nonexistent thing [syn: nonentity]
adv : in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Nothing : \Noth"ing\, adv.
In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. --Milton.
The influence of reason in producing our passions is
nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
--Burke.
Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the
vessel close to the wind.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Nothing : \Noth"ing\, n. [Based on no, a. _ thing.]
1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word
thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.
2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;
nothingness. --Shak.
3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something
irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative
unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
--Is. xli. 24.
'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
--Dryden.
4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.
Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer.
To make nothing of.
(a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or
important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies
from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our
souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray.
(b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he
said.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Nothing |
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XILLIN: - without you I'm Nothing, you Belong With Me |
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Hoodeff: @GreyhoundNews Not playing Derby tonight. Dania and Nothing so far. Very close in a few games. Hows Mardi Gras? |
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AlexisLarrouy: Nothing could possibly make me happier than seeing Jego on a rainy day, which could potentially happen tomorrow. He gives me reasons. |
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