nil
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nil"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
Noun
nil (usually uncountable, plural nils)
- Nothing; zero.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:
- As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
- (sports) A score of zero
- The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
Derived terms
Translations
nothing
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Determiner
nil
- No, not any.
- 1982, Gavin Lyall, Conduct of Major Maxim, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
- But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.
Related terms
See also
Golin
Alternative forms
- nl, nĺ
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nɨ̆ĺ], [nĺ], [˩˧nɨ̆l]
Derived terms
- Kulupe nil
- nil benke
- nil benke binan
- nil guli
- nil kabe
- nil kupa si
- nil pai
- Nilmanil
- nilwa
References
- Gordon Bunn, Golin Grammar (1974)
Latin
Etymology
Syncopic form of nihil, in turn from nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hilum (“a hilum; a trifle, a bagatelle”), or unknown origin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /niːl/, [niːɫ̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nil/, [nil]
Noun
nīl n (indeclinable)
References
- “nil”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nil”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Tok Pisin
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