nil English

Meaning nil meaning

What does nil mean?

Definitions in simple English

nil Noun

— Nil is zero. Their chances of meeting again are almost nil. She won six games to nil.

nil

— noun (= nothing, goose egg, naught, zilch) a quantity of no importance 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

Synonyms nil synonyms

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nil English » English

zero

nothing

naught

nought

null

cipher

nix

cypher

zippo

zip

zilch

void

nada

goose egg

aught

zeroth

nothingness

none

nonbeing

nihil

empty

emptiness

bugger all

blob

all gone

Topics nil topics

What do people use nil to talk about?

States Quantity All

None, nothing

• What words refer to no thing?
  none not any no nothing not anything be nil bugger all
• What words refer to the number zero?
  zero nil naught o

Examples nil examples

How do I use nil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence.

Movie subtitles

Nil desperandum, Olly.

If they crack, and from my summing up of the situation I'm sure they will, our chances of withdrawing to Dunkirk are nil.

Visibility down to nil.

He says the visibility over the coast of Norway is absolutely nil.

Nil return.

Well, nil nisi bonum.

Our life expectancy may be nil, but I'd like you to know this has been a very real, warm, human experience.

I assessed it as nil.

Orders, information enemy, nil.

Simon's resistance is practically nil. Because he's been under the influence of Mocata for so long. The same thing applies to Ms Carlisle.

In london, I have with me mr. ludovic grayson The man who scored all six goals in arsenal's 1-nil victory Over the turkish champions fc botty.

One nil to me.

Nil desperandum.

Interstitial activity - nil. Molecular structure stable.

A pack of Nil, please.

But that won't keep them from winning. It'll be 5-nil.

Political activity almost nil on this blistering weekend.

Nil return, eh?

Simon's resistance is practically nil. Because he's been under the influence of Mocata for so long.

And your chance of finding Contini is nil.

Respiratory action nil.

Cardiac nil, encephalogram flat.

Nil desperandum, dear lady.

Coventry city, nil, mr. johnson's una, three.

Visibility is nil, sir.

Camera reading nil.

Little news tonight. Political activity almost nil on this blistering weekend. All of the country's energy seems focused on beaches and river banks.

Oxygen density one-seven-two, radiation nil, temperature. eighty-six - strong suggestion of mercury deposits.

Thirteen-nil!

They're lucky it wasn't a hundred and thirteen-nil!

Interstitial activity - nil.

Interstitial activity- nil.

Motive power nil.

Nil desperandum, Jo.

The root - one, dalek - nil.

Offensive value therefore nil.

He is nobody, a two-bit actor, a nil!

He's a nobody, your Maksakov! He's a nil!

Geste et Geste nil separatum est.

News and current affairs

Its financial crisis drags on, growth is nil, unemployment rises, and, recently, deflation appeared.

After all, the probability of international intervention (as in Libya) is nil, and the likelihood of a full-fledged armed revolution (as in Syria) is extremely limited.

And, even if Palestinian negotiators agreed to end the conflict once and for all, the chances that all Palestinian factions would abide by such a settlement are nil.

Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil.

The chances that anyone will be suspended from the industry are minimal, and the impact on management is likely to be nil.

But the prospects that an agreement will be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009 are close to nil.