det
Meaning 1
No, not any.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nil
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/nɪl/
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CMU ARPABET: N IH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Nothing; zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 3
A score of zero
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
Initialism of nanoimprint lithography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Topics: engineering, nanotechnology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of name, image, and likeness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 6
a quantity of no importance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nothing, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relative quantity
Narrower terms: nihil, bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See nihilism, nihility.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: нищо (ništo) — nothing
- Bulgarian: нула (nula) — nothing
- Czech: nic — nothing
- Dutch: nul — nothing
- Esperanto: nenio — nothing
- Finnish: nolla — nothing
- Galician: nada — nothing
- Hebrew: כלום (kloom) — nothing
- Hungarian: null — nothing
- Japanese: ニル (niru) — nothing
- Central Kurdish: ھیچ (hîç) — nothing
- Norwegian Bokmål: null — nothing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: null — nothing
- Plautdietsch: nuscht — nothing
- Polish: zero — nothing
- Portuguese: nada — nothing
- Russian: ничто́ (ništó) — nothing
- Russian: ноль (nolʹ) — nothing
- Scottish Gaelic: neoni — nothing
- Swedish: noll — nothing
- Ukrainian: нічого (ničoho) — nothing
- Czech: nula — zero (in sports)
- French: zéro — zero (in sports)
- Galician: cero — zero (in sports)
- German: null — zero (in sports)
- Hungarian: null — zero (in sports)
- Ukrainian: нуль (nulʹ) — zero (in sports)
- Welsh: dim — zero (in sports)