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Meanings of nil in English
Synonyms
Examples for "nothing"
Examples for "nothing"
1
However, Mr Mark said the government's concerns about China were nothing new.
2
There is, of course, an easier solution to this problem: do nothing.
3
A year later, nothing and everything was new in New Port City.
4
Though she said nothing, her body language provided a clear enough answer.
5
However, police today found the unlicensed private investigator had done nothing wrong.
1
This way Quinn confirmed his zero-rated compassion; only children held equal status.
2
She said the game must take a zero tolerance approach to abuse.
3
Labour would propose amendments to scrap zero hour contracts, Mr Lees-Galloway said.
4
However, the problem here is that the final y-position is not zero.
5
South Australia and the ACT reported zero new cases since Tuesday's updates.
1
It extenuates some things, maybe; but it sets down naught in malice.
2
He rejected the priests; he would have naught of any but me.
3
The forest provided his food, which in the backwoods cost him naught.
4
They need to learn that the Night's Watch is naught t'be feared.
5
No, no; I will believe naught against Jasper until I see it.
1
I ne'er thought Father would accept aught but a Norseman, Drifa said.
2
Moreover, Pharaoh would avenge aught he did upon the people of Israel.
3
The material universe may, for aught we know, be limited in extent.
4
No one knows aught of what pleases the eye and the heart.
5
For aught I know, it was current money in Nineveh and Babylon.
1
Thus, the quality of your school is determined by your zip code.
2
Our zip code has been called the most dangerous in Kansas City.
3
That, combined with its excellent zip, unfortunately makes it vulnerable to damage.
4
Patient income was estimated from residential zip code at time of HCT.
5
One recent story nicely summed up his zip and lack of pretension.
1
LXR-null mice also display delayed resolution, suggesting that native oxysterols promote resolution.
2
McDougal is asking the court to declare the agreement null and void.
3
The meta-analysis rejected the null hypothesis that all studies showed no effect.
4
Overall the distribution of associations was not significantly different from the null.
5
Therefore, migration defects of Pten-null neurons might be secondary to ectopic differentiation.
1
The general sat holding in his hand a short letter, in cipher.
2
The interpretation of the cipher was written on it in these words:
3
Many film viewers, however, thought HAL was a one-letter-ahead cipher for IBM.
4
Or the writing is in cipher and he must furnish the key.
5
He could penetrate no farther into the instructions; the cipher again changed.
1
Yet the new approach leaves China plenty of scope to nix investigations.
2
Besides, her boyfriend's immoderate enthusiasm alone was enough to nix the idea.
3
The rest, sadly, nix the idea of this as a Mac lovefest.
4
So he is good for nix, the worse cur I ever saw.
5
I'll give you nix naught nothing and my thanks into the bargain.
1
Hours: 40 hours or more a week during the season, then nada.
2
Our forever bae Michael B. Jordan also received a nomination for nada.
3
Gina's interest in the question was close to total nada.
4
You'll notice the music in your headphones, and nada else.
5
All I meant, Miss White: I had nada to gain.
1
The Serbian Government spent a small fortune in cypher telegrams about you.
2
There it had been, the juxtaposed cypher, and in the proper order:
3
In the centre of the others, were his majesty's cypher of f.r.
4
We talk to each other in a sort of cypher, dear Rhoda.
5
I then applied myself to the problem of breaking the cypher.
1
Presto-zippo, man, that'll be the last we ever see of her.
2
We're sifting through it, but so far zippo.
3
It's costing us a bundle, and returning zippo.
4
We'd just started our staff study when we got a zippo-that'san operational priority message-tocome home.
5
You have to believe that you can and should perform whatever action you had in mind, or you get zippo.
1
For about 68 million Americans, the answer to that question is zilch.
2
Except for that height estimate, I saw zilch with regard to sex.
3
She may be an excellent MEP but her track record is zilch.
4
And now here I am, starting from scratch, with nothing, zilch, zero.
5
Faws Right now, we know zilch about this Dublin-based producer or producers …
1
She said a few times she had used a goose egg in custard.
2
Better than the goose egg he had been looking forward to.
3
A large goose egg, purple and knotted, was rising mystically on his forehead.
4
A goose egg, puffy and gray, swelled along his sallow cheekbone.
5
He disappeared into his tunnel, pushing the goose egg in front of him.
Usage of nil in English
1
We were told of 'smugly smiling atheists' and 'Lions 10; Christians nil'.
2
The chances of the current terms succeeding, therefore, are just about nil.
3
Etisalat said it was carrying its 45 percent stake at nil value.
4
The company's risk of bankruptcy is essentially nil now, the analyst said.
5
The expenditure of the successful Labour candidate in Pretoria was practically nil.
6
I trust you-personally , Imean-but Ihavenil faith in police protection.
7
HBOS said trading in its nil-paid shares will begin on June 27th.
8
An historic moment on this patch of turf: one-nil to the Villa.
9
A languid South African team were lucky to get nil that day.
10
They also opened with five goals to nil for a 31-point lead.
11
But Dr Johnson has much of the nil admirari in smaller concerns.
12
Barrett converted them all to take a 28-nil lead into half time.
13
The visitors now have an unassailable 2-nil lead in the three-match series.
14
Was that because without Saul their chances of survival became precisely nil?
15
It has no postage, no postmark, and nil for a return address.
16
Always have a plan for retreating safely when visibility drops to nil.
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Translations for nil
Russian
Nil through the time
Nil across language varieties
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Common
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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