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TO MAKE NOTHING OF

Definition: TO MAKE NOTHING OF

TO MAKE NOTHING OF

1. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: TO MAKE NOTHING OF

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unintelligibility

Not understand; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea; (uncertain); wonder; see through a glass darkly; (ignorance).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: TO MAKE NOTHING OF

Language Translations for "TO MAKE NOTHING OF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

semmibe se vesz vmit (to make nothing of sg), nem ért vmit (to make nothing of sg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay akemay othingnay ofay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO MAKE NOTHING OF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-h-i-k-m-n-n-o-o-o-t-t"

-4 letters: fomentation.

-5 letters: footnoting, hotfooting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO MAKE NOTHING OF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      4D 41 4B 45      4E 4F 54 48 49 4E 47      4F 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#32 &#78 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#79 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      004D 0041 004B 0045      004E 004F 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047      004F 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924735453924849544243484124940

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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