Nil

Definition: Nil

Nil

Noun

1. Nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ: "nihil habet").

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Health

Mining

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Synonyms: Nil

Benevolence

Phrase: " act a charity sometimes "; " a tender heart, a will inflexible "; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; " kind words are more than coronets "; quando amigo pide no hay manana; " the social smile, the sympathetic tear ".

Caprice

Phrase: nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi; the deuce is in him.

Death

Phrase: life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honesta mors turpi vita potior; "in adamantine chains shall death be bound"; mors ultima linea rerum est; ominia mors aequat; "Spake the grisly Terror"; "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep"; nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Disapprobation

Verb: disapprove; dislike; lament; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari, disvalue; improbate.

Expectance

Verb: expect; not be surprised, not wonder; nil admirari, make nothing of.

Hope

Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis.

Inexistence

Noun: inexistence; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nil; negativeness; Adjective: nullity; nihility, nihilism; tabula rasa, blank; abeyance; absence; no such thing; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.

Innocence

Verb: be innocent; adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa.

Insensibility

Verb: be insensible; Adjective: have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility; Noun: not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari; not care a straw; (unimportance) for; disregard; (neglect); set at naught; (make light of); turn a deaf ear to; (inattention); vegetate.

Necessity

Adverb: necessarily; adVerb: of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute.

Unsubstantiality

Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil.

Crosswords: Nil

Albanian (Nile), Czech (Nile), Danish (nil), French (Nile), German (Nile), Indonesian (Nile), Serbo-Croatian (nile), Turkish (Nile).

Nimirnthu Nil (1968)

Al- Nass wal Nil (1968)

Dema alal Nil (1961)

Seraa fil Nil (1959)

Ibn el Nil (1951)

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Books

• Akagera : des lions du Nil aux gorilles des monts de la Lune (reference)

• Du Nil Au Jourdain (French Edition) (reference)

• Echanges Et Contacts Le Long Du Nil Et de La Mer Rouge Dans L'Epoque Protohistorique (Iiie Et IIe Mi: Une Synthese Preliminaire (reference)

• Elkab II. L'elkabien, épipaléolithique de la Vallée du Nil Egyptien (with English summary). (reference)

• Le Long Du Nil En Egypte (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nil By Mouth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nil Desperandum (reference)

• Nil Lara (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Esneh - dattiers, sycomore et café sur le bord du Nil / Félix Teynard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cours du Nil De la mer Méditerranée a la deuxième cataracte / / dessiné par Félix Teynard, d'après Delamarche, Lapie Arrowsmith ; gravé par Félix Penel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Djirdjeh - mosquée en ruines sur le bord du Nil / Félix Teynard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the preparation area of Basic Magnesium's giant plant now nearing completion in the southern Nevada desert. The pyramidal form of 540 x 100-foot peat storage buildings is reminiscent of the Nil. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vegetable stand outside the home of Anthony Forgetta, Italian vegetable farmer. Farming activity in the winter is almost nil, while Mr. Forgetta and his daughter work in textile mills nearby. Andover, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Prior to that, its use in residential construction was practically nil. Robins Co., Ltd., which pioneered the use of maple floors in Korea, was one of the first American firms to enter this market. (references)

Customs duty on specified capital goods for semiconductor manufacture is nil. IT software continues to be exempt from customs duty. Computer software has also been exempted from service tax. In addition to the basic customs duty, imports are also subject to a Countervailing Duty (CVD) and Surcharge on basic duty of 10 percent, wherever applicable. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea

Missionary groups are required to make a declaration of their aims and activities to the Ministry of Interior or to the NIL. (references)

Guinea

The NIL states that it supports peaceful coexistence with other religious denominations and actively attempts to facilitate dialog to eliminate ethnic and religious tensions. (references)

Guinea

Although the Government and the NIL have spoken out against the proliferation of Shi'a fundamentalist sects on the grounds that they "generate confusion and deviation" within the country's Islamic family, they have not restricted these groups. (references)

Trade

Romania

Over the next years, taxes for many of the products imported from EU, EFTA, and CEFTA countries will be reduced to nil creating a barrier to U.S. products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "nil": blue nil ♦ de mortuis nil nisi bonum ♦ Ipomoea nil ♦ nil admirari ♦ nil balance ♦ nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa ♦ nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi ♦ nil report ♦ two goals to nil ♦ will he nil he. Additional references.

Beginning with "nil": nil-apartheid, nil-assessments, nil-nil, nil-paid, nil-promotion, nil-rate.

Ending with "nil": nil-nil, one-nil, three-nil, two-nil.

Albanian

zero (cipher, cypher, goose-egg, love, Nix, nothing, nought, ought, zero), hiç (naught, Nix, nobody, nothing, nought, ought, zero, zilch), çka (so so, that, tolerable, tolerably, what). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لا شىء (naught, nix, nothing, nought, scarcely), ‏عدم (beggary, mis-, negation, non-, nothingness, nought), ‏صفر (beep, blow, cipher, hiss, hoot, naught, nought, pipe, toot, tootle, wheeze, whistle, yellow, zero), ‏صنع (dip, fabricate, fabrication, fashion, industrialize, make, manufacture, output, produce, production, turn out), ‏خلق (create, creation, differentiate, fiber, habit, inspire, make, mood), ‏العدم (nonentity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нула (cipher, goose-egg, love, naught, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, ought, peanut, zero), нищо (naught, negation, never mind, none, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought). (various references)

Chinese 

零 (Zero, Zeroes, Zeros). (various references)

Czech

nula (cipher, love, naught, nothing, nought, ought, zero), nic (anything, naught, nihil, Nix, nothing, nullity). (various references)

Danish

nil. (various references)

Dutch

nihil (naught, nothing, nought, null, zero, zilch). (various references)

Farsi 

معدوم (Extinct), هیچ (Any, Ever, Naught, Never, Nix, None, Nothing, Nought, Nowise, Whit, Zero), صفر (Naught, Nothing, Null, Zero). (various references)

Finnish

nolla (nought, zero). (various references)

French

nul, nihil, néant, zéro, tirer du néant, rien (Nix). (various references)

German

Null (dead loss, naught, nonentity, nothing, nought, NULL, nullo, o, zero, zilch), nichts (emptiness, mere cipher, naught, Nix, nobody, non, none, nonentity, not smth., nothing, nothingness, nought, trifle, triviality, void). (various references)

Greek 

μηδέν (blob, naught, nought, zero), τίποτε (aught, naught, nothing, nought), τίποτα (anything, naught, nothing, nought). (various references)

Hebrew 

אפס (but, however, naught, nothing, nought, only, ought, zero). (various references)

Hungarian

semmi (any, aught, beans, diddly, diddly-squat, eff all, nae, naught, Nix, none, not any, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought, sod all, to be no hope of sg, vacancy, zero, zilch), nulla (aught, cipher, duck, naught, nothing, nought, null, o, zero). (various references)

Indonesian

nol (ought, zero), tiada arti (meaningless). (various references)

Italian

nullità (invalidity, naught, nobody, nonentity, nothingness, nullity, zero), nulla (anything, naught, Nix, nothing), niente (anything, none, not at all, nothing), zero (cipher, cypher, naught, nought, null, scratch, zero), stato negativo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

絶無 (naught, nothing), 無 (naught, nothing, zero). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜつむ (naught, nothing), む (naught, nothing, six, zero). (various references)

Korean 

없음. (various references)

Manx

neuhnee (naught, nonentity, nothing, nothingness). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilnay.(various references)

Portuguese

niilidade, nada (anything, damn, iota, naught, nix, none, not an ace, nothing, nothingness, nought, null, ought, zero, zilch), zero (cipher, cypher, naught, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, o, ought, pressmark, zero, zilch). (various references)

Romanian

nimic (anything, bauble, fillip, flea-bite, morsel, naught, negation, nonentity, nothing, nothingness, nought, stiver, trifle), zero (cipher, duck's, love, morsel, naught, nobody, nothing, nought, null, zero), fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket). (various references)

Russian 

нуль;пустой указатель, нуль (cipher, naught, o, ought, zero, zeroes, zeros), ноль (nothing, nought, zero, zilch), пустой указатель, пустой список. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nula (duck's egg, goose-egg, love, naught, nought, null, zero), ništa (naught, nix, no, not at all, nothing). (various references)

Spanish

nulo (invalid, naught, null, spoilt, void, zero), nada (any, aught, naught, Nix, none, not any the, not at all, nothing, nothingness, nought, nowt, peanuts), cero (cipher, cypher, duck, love, naught, nothing, nought, zero). (various references)

Swedish

noll (duck, duck's egg, love, naught, nought, zero, zilch), intet (no, not, nothing, nothingness). (various references)

Thai

จำนวนศูนย์ (nihil). (various references)

Turkish

sıfır (cipher, cypher, naught, nothing, nought, null, o, ought, zero), hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch). (various references)

Ukrainian

відомостей немає, нічого (never mind, nihil, nothing), нуль (blob, cipher, naught, nihil, nothing, nought, null, ought, zero). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không (nixie, no, null, scarcely). (various references)

Wolof

dara. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "nil": nilgai, nilgais, nilgau, nilgaus, nilghai, nilghais, nilghau, nilghaus, nill, nilled, nilling, nills, nilpotent, nils. (additional references)

Words ending with "nil": anil. (additional references)

Words containing "nil": acetanilid, acetanilide, acetanilides, acetanilids, anile, anilin, anilinctus, anilinctuses, aniline, anilines, anilingus, anilinguses, anilins, anilities, anility, anils, anthranilate, anthranilates, bonnily, brainily, brawnily, campanile, campaniles, campanili, cannily, chenille, chenilles, cornily, cunnilinctus, cunnilinctuses, cunnilingus, cunnilinguses, funnily, hornily, juvenile, juveniles, juvenilia, juvenilities, juvenility, magniloquence, magniloquences, magniloquent, magniloquently, manila, manilas, manilla, manillas, manille, manilles, minilab, minilabs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enil, infl, inl, inmil, inol, intl, nacl, nagl, nal, Nala, nalb, nalf, nalg, nalt, na'lu, Nciv, ncl, necl, neel, neil, neill, nel, neld, nelk, nell, nelo, nelp, nelw, nerl, nfil, nfl, ngi, Nhi, nhic, nia, nic, nicl, nid, nie, niel, Niell, nif, nih, nihl, nij, nik, nilb, nilc, nili, nilk, niln, nilo, nils, nio, niq, nir, Niu, niv, niw, niy, niz, nl, Nli, nlp, nlx, nohl, nol, nola, nolo, nonl, nosl, Nri, nsl, nuhl, nuil, nula, nulo, nult, nyl, nyo, nyp, Nypl, nyr, nyu, onil, uil, unil, yil, zil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lin.

-1 letter: in, li.

+1 letter: anil, blin, inly, kiln, lain, lien, limn, line, ling, link, linn, lino, lins, lint, liny, lion, loin, nail, nill, nils, noil.

+2 letters: algin, alien, align, aline, aloin, anile, anils, anvil, binal, blain, blind, blini, blink, cline, cling, clink, colin, elain, elfin, elint, eloin, final, fling, flint, glint, indol, ingle, inkle, inlay, inlet, kilns, lanai, lapin, lenis, levin, liana, liane, liang, liens, ligan, liken, liman, limen, limns, linac, lindy, lined, linen, liner, lines, liney, linga, lingo, lings, lingy, linin, links, linky, linns, linos, lints, linty, linum, lions, lipin, liven, loins, lungi, lupin, lying, lysin, nails, nicol, nidal, nihil, nills, nival, noils, noily, olein, plain, plink, slain, sling, slink, snail, unlit, until, vinal, vinyl.