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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun slang A quantity of no importance; nothing.

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Examples

  • Wenn sie das IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) fragen, welches die derzeitige Konsensmeinung zum Klimawandel repräsentiert, so lautet die Antwort "nichts".

    Oekologismus.de 2010

  • Wenn sie das IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) fragen, welches die derzeitige Konsensmeinung zum Klimawandel repräsentiert, so lautet die Antwort "nichts".

    Oekologismus.de 2010

  • "Wer fremde Sprache nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen."

    No Bells? 2009

  • In Erich Paul Remark's monumental novel "Im Westen nichts Neues" All Quiet on the Western Front depicting the dehumanizing experience of WWI's trench style warfare, there's an opening scene in which the young soldiers one day finally became properly fed, but only because they received double portion caused by the loss of half their company that day without anyone notifying the army cook managing his goulash cannon battle station.

    Honest Cooking: Wartime Food: Meet The Goulash Cannon Honest Cooking 2011

  • "Wer fremde Sprache nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen."

    No Bells? 2009

  • Wenn auch er den Anblick des schweren und felsigen Stuhls hat, die unmöglich ist, von Zimmer bis Zimmer zu bewegen, ist er für nichts so.

    3 in 1 chair : Chair Ssstoel 2009

  • "Wer fremde Sprache nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen."

    No Bells? 2009

  • In Erich Paul Remark's monumental novel "Im Westen nichts Neues" All Quiet on the Western Front depicting the dehumanizing experience of WWI's trench style warfare, there's an opening scene in which the young soldiers one day finally became properly fed, but only because they received double portion caused by the loss of half their company that day without anyone notifying the army cook managing his goulash cannon battle station.

    Honest Cooking: Wartime Food: Meet The Goulash Cannon Honest Cooking 2011

  • Chinatown is on my top ten list, but es mach nichts.

    Reader poll: Send Roman Polanski to prison? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Hallo Eva, also ich bin ja schon länger da (seit 2002, um genau zu sein), ich habe nur vorher nichts paranormales geschrieben.

    Guest Author: Michelle Raven Nalini Singh 2009

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