| 单词 | nil |
| 释义 | nil (once / 2417 pages) n Use the word nil to mean "zero," especially when you're talking about scores in a sporting event: "the final score was twelve-nil." Saying nil instead of zero or nothing is much more common in Britain than in the United States. In the U.S. you might hear a tennis score include the word nil, while in the U.K. it's a common term for cricket and football scores as well. There's also a common British medical usage, "nil by mouth," a doctor's instruction not to eat or drink before surgery. Nil is a contraction of the Latin word for "nothing," nihil. WORD FAMILYnil: nils USAGE EXAMPLESWorse, his grasp of matters of state was nil. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) The GOP’s ability to throw sand was nil in Mr. Obama’s first years. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) If a falling yen helps keep inflation above nil, real interest rates will be negative, sharpening the incentive. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) n a quantity of no importance reduced to nil all the work we had done Syn|Hypo|Hyper aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo nihil (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ) relative quantity a quantity relative to some purpose |
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