Nil

[Nil]

Use the word nil to mean "zero," especially when you're talking about scores in a sporting event: "the final score was twelve nil."

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Will not.

Noun
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"


v. t.
Will not.

n. & a.
Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.


Nil

Nil . [See Nill, v. t.] Will not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nil

Nil, n. & a. [L., a contr. of nihil.] Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. A. J. Ellis.

Will not.

Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.

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Misspelled Form

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