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Examples of nought
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It was nought to blast-off in a moment and the lurchers'owners were not pleased.
From the express.co.uk
Korall Koral is an opera aimed at children aged from nought to three years old.
From the guardian.co.uk
They had lost at Trent Bridge, and at Lord's he had been out twice for nought.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Man Utd have a very real chance of winning nothing now, zero, nada, diddly nought.
From the independent.co.uk
This figure may seem underwhelming, but it was almost nought just a few years ago.
From the economist.com
Perhaps nought but the collision of modernist and pre-modernist modes of thinking?
From the guardian.co.uk
Efforts to locate the remains in 1802, 1909, 1939 and 2004 had come to nought.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One of them is going to devastated that three years'work will have been for nought.
From the hampshirechronicle.co.uk
Certainly all the fluff and bluster they arrived with has amounted to nought.
From the theargus.co.uk
- Zero: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- Zero, written 0, is both a number and the numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. It plays a central role in mathematics as the additive identity of the integers, real numbers, and many other algebraic structures. As a digit, 0 is used as a placeholder in place value systems. ...
- (The noughts) File:2000s decade montage3.png|From left, clockwise: The World Trade Center towers, in the wake of the September 11 attacks; the Euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq; troops heading toward an army ...
- Nothing; something which does not exist; A thing or person of no worth or value; nil; Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game; The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero; To abase, to set at nought; Good for nothing; worthless; Wicked, immoral; ...
- N. pron. "nawt". The digit zero. I am told by contributors that it is also occasionally used in the US (although it "may be an old Southern thing") and is an Old English word meaning "nothing" still used in northern regional English.
- N. 1. The number zero.
