Nix

Definition: Nix

Nix

Noun

1. 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 "nix" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Nix

Demon

Vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogeyman, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp.

Zero

Noun: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality.

Crosswords: Nix

German (merman, nothing, nowt, water-sprite), Latin (snow), Romanian (Nix), Swedish (not a bit of it).

Nix Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963)

Percy Brains He Has Nix (1916)

Nix is fix (1993)

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References

• Nix Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Derzèahl mer nix! : Gschichtler aus Franken (reference)

• Earth Adventures of Seedwin the Nix (reference)

• Hix Nix Stix Pix: A Kaleidoscope of Talk and Events (reference)

• Joe Nix Is Dead (reference)

• Nix fèur unguat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Going Down: The Songs of Don Nix (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Kaiser Bill: Gott is mitt uns, NIX.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

The NIX.CZ interconnects the Internet networks of the individual Czech providers and enables them fast access to the Internet. (references)

During the next year, NIX.CZ plans to become a central node for Central Europe which will enable its members to connect at the speed of 1 Gbps. Such speed would allow development of multimedia applications. (references)

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

Albanian

Zero (cipher, cypher, goose-egg, love, nil, nothing, nought, ought, zero), Shtojzovalle (sylph), Hiç (naught, nil, nobody, nothing, nought, ought, zero, zilch), Asgjë (none, nothing, there is nothing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لا شىء (naught, nil, nothing, nought, scarcely), ‏عارض (adventitious, disagree, discountenance, dissent, exhibitor, join issue with, mind, negative, not to hold with, object, oppose, part company, precarious, protest, take issue wit), ‏رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Не, Нищо, �'оден �"ух. (various references)

Czech

Nic (anything, naught, nihil, nil, nothing, nullity). (various references)

Farsi 

منع کردن (Inhibit, Prohibit, Refrain, Withhold), هیچکس (Noone), هیچ (Any, Ever, Naught, Never, Nil, None, Nothing, Nought, Nowise, Whit, Zero), نه خیر (Not), وتوکردن , حوری دریاءی , اصلا (Ever, None), رای مخالف دادن (Blackball, Veto), بهیچ وجه . (various references)

French

Rien (nil), Peau De Balle, Mettre Son Véto À. (various references)

German

Nixe (bathing belle, mermaid, nixie, water nymph, water-sprite), Nichts (emptiness, mere cipher, naught, nil, nobody, non, none, nonentity, not smth., nothing, nothingness, nought, trifle, triviality, void). (various references)

Greek 

όχι (negative, no, non, nope, not), Νεράιδα (Fay, Undine), Τίποτε. (various references)

Hungarian

vigyázz (attention, beware of the trains!, get set, go!, look out, on your marks, ready, steady), Semmi (any, aught, beans, diddly, diddly-squat, eff all, nae, naught, nil, none, not any, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought, sod all, to be no hope of sg, vacancy, zero, zilch). (various references)

Italian

Nulla (anything, naught, nil, nothing), no (Kingdom of Norway, nay, no, nope, Norway, not, num., number, octane number). (various references)

Manx

shee ushtey (nixie). (various references)

Pig Latin

ixnay

Portuguese

Nada (anything, damn, iota, naught, nil, none, none of this concerns me, not an ace, nothing, nothingness, nought, null, ought, zero, zilch), gênio das águas, cuidado (accuracy, attention, care, caution, heed, keeping, labored, laboured, neatness, nursing, outlook, painstaking, punctuality, river horse, safety first, solicitude, tendance, thought, vigilance, watch, watchout, worry), Branco Como A Neve (snow white). (various references)

Romanian

Nix, Spirit Al Apelor. (various references)

Russian 

Ничего, �'одяной. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ništa (naught, nil, no, not at all, nothing), ne (nay, negative, no, nope, not), zabraniti (ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, rule out, suppress), pazi (look out, shun). (various references)

Spanish

ni hablar (no such thing), Nada (any, aught, naught, nil, none, not any the, not at all, nothing, nothingness, nought, nowt, peanuts). (various references)

Swedish

Inte Ett Dugg. (various references)

Thai

หยุ�" (arrest, block, break, cease, cease from, die, dry out, dry up, shut), ปฎิเสธ. (various references)

Turkish

Su Perisi (naiad, nereid, nixie, nymph, undine, waterman), Reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), Hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, nil, 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), Engel Olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, scotch, shackle, thwart), dur (halt, hist, hold, hold it, hold on, stop, whoa), dikkat et (be careful, look out, nota bene, watch out). (various references)

Ukranian 

Заборонити, �'одяник, �'ідмовитися, �'ідмінити, �'ідхилити Прохання, будь обережний, не дозволю, не можна, � усалка, обережно (beware, carefully, deliberately, discreetly, gently, gingerly, guardedly, handle with care, look ahead, look out, providently, steady), стій (halt, hold on, off), Не, Ні, Нуль, Нічого, Ніщо, Ніскільки, кинь (cut it out), увага (attention, count, diligence, hark, heed, mind your eye, note, notice, off, regard, respect), не хочу. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuỷ thần, không một cái gì, không một ai, h� bá (sea-god). (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 "nix": nixe, nixed, nixes, nixie, nixies, nixing, nixy. (additional references)

Words ending with "nix": fornix, phenix, phoenix, vernix. (additional references)

Words containing "nix": phenixes, phoenixes, phoenixlike, vernixes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nix" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anix, eix, gix, Iifx, Iix, iixxx, inix, Inox, inx, ixx, Jix, jnix, knix, narx, nax, naxe, naxi, ncia, Nciv, ndia, neggs, neox, newx, nex, nexe, nexi, nexo, ngi, Nhi, nhic, nia, nic, nict, nid, nie, nif, nigs, nih, nij, nik, nio, niq, nir, Niu, niux, niv, niw, nixe, Nixi, nixs, nixt, nixw, nixy, niy, niz, nlx, noex, Noggs, Noix, noux, Novx, noxa, noxe, noxy, Nri, nsx, nuict, numx, nux, nuxe, nuxx, nx, nyp, nyr, nyu, Nyx, oix, onix, unix, Xixb. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: in, xi.

+1 letter: jinx, minx, nixe, nixy.

+2 letters: auxin, axing, axion, exine, index, infix, nixed, nixes, nixie, toxin, unfix, unmix, vixen, xenia, xenic.

+3 letters: alexin, anoxia, anoxic, auxins, axenic, axions, axonic, boxing, coxing, dioxan, dioxin, exines, exonic, faxing, fixing, fornix, foxing, hexing, influx, jinxed, jinxes, loxing, meninx, minxes, mixing, nixies, nixing, phenix, poxing, raxing, sexing, sphinx, syrinx, taxing, toxine, toxins, unfixt, unisex, unmixt, vernix, vexing, vixens, waxing, xenial, xenias.

+4 letters: alexine, alexins, anoxias, antefix, antisex, antitax, anxiety, anxious, auxinic, boxings, coaxing, dextrin, digoxin, dioxane, dioxans, dioxins, equinox, examine, exciton, exigent, exilian, exiling, exiting, explain, exscind, extinct, exuding, fixings, flexing, flexion, fluxing, fluxion, foxings, foxskin, hoaxing, indexed, indexer, indexes, indoxyl, inexact, infixed, infixes, jinxing, lexicon, maximin, minimax, minxish, noxious, outjinx, oxazine, oxidant, phoenix, princox, reindex, relaxin, salpinx, sextain, sixteen, taxiing, taximan, taximen, taxying, toxines, unfixed, unfixes, unmixed, unmixes, vixenly, waxings, waxwing, xanthic, xanthin, xylidin.

+5 letters: admixing, affixing, alexines, anatoxin, annexing, anorexia, anorexic, anoxemia, anoxemic, antefixa, anthelix, appendix, bemixing, biconvex, biotoxin, boxiness, cineplex, coxswain, desexing, detoxing, dewaxing, dextrine, dextrins, digoxins, dioxanes, ektexine, endexine, epoxying, euxenite, exacting, exaction, exalting, examined, examinee, examiner, examines, exciding, excising, excision, excitant, exciting, excitons, excusing, exerting, exertion, exhaling, exhuming, exigence, exigency, existent, existing, exocrine, exonumia, exotoxin, expiring, explains, exposing, exscinds, extincts, exulting, fixating, fixation, flexions, fluxions, foxiness, foxskins, gloxinia, hexamine, immixing, indexers, indexing, indoxyls, inexpert, infixing, infixion, inflexed, influxes, intermix, interrex, intersex, laxation, lexicons, luxating, luxation, maximins, monaxial, monoxide, nontoxic, oxazines, oxidants, oxygenic, oxytocin, panmixes, panmixia, panmixis, phenixes, pixiness, pontifex, quincunx, refixing, relaxing, relaxins, remixing, retaxing, rewaxing, saxonies, sexiness, sextains, siloxane, sixpence, sixpenny, sixteens, sphinxes, spinifex, subindex, swinepox, syrinxes, taxation, taxingly, telexing, thyroxin, toxicant, transfix, unboxing, unexotic, unfixing, uniaxial, unisexes, unmixing, unsexing, vernixes, vexation, vexingly, vixenish, waxiness, waxwings, xanthein, xanthine, xanthins, xenolith, xeroxing, xylidine, xylidins.

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