Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nothing; zero.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
nill . - noun Nothing.
- noun In musical acoustics, a minute interval, equal to a fifty-first part of a semitone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Will not.
- noun (computers) A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
- Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Nothing ;zero . - determiner No, not any.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quantity of no importance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I warmed to the cover for a start, cocoa-eau-de-nil is my current favourite colour combination but I opened it and everything I've known all my life was immediately set out before me.
I want those shoes 2007
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I warmed to the cover for a start, cocoa-eau-de-nil is my current favourite colour combination but I opened it and everything I've known all my life was immediately set out before me.
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I warmed to the cover for a start, cocoa-eau-de-nil is my current favourite colour combination but I opened it and everything I've known all my life was immediately set out before me.
I want those shoes 2007
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The church of Ménil is a ruin, but the parsonage still stands – a plain little house at the end of the street; and here the curé received us, and led us into a room which he has turned into a chapel.
Fighting France 1915
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Thus our word nil literally means "not even a wee little bit."
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2009
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I don’t agree with the Anti-Abortion stance, but if you’re going to use it, use it with vigor and represent it in strong clear language, and, as a Dem, it has to get to the heart of what most pro-choice Dems feel – lowering the rate of abortions to practically nil is a great start.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt 2010
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His interaction with the actors is almost nil, which is fine with Freeman.
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Of course, for the Soviets, the difference between a bulldog and a capitalist is essentially nil, which is the less than subtle point to this exercise.
Alterdestiny 2010
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The recent chancellors 'debate, a possible preview of Thursday, saw all three participants doing reasonably well: what might be described as a nil-nil-nil draw.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The recent chancellors 'debate, a possible preview of Thursday, saw all three participants doing reasonably well: what might be described as a nil-nil-nil draw.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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