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Definition: Nothings |
NothingsNoun1. Inconsequential conversation; "they traded a few nothings as they parted". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nothings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Finance | A term used to refer to intangible assets of a capital nature such as goodwill, incorporation expenses, rights, franchises and other intangible assets of indefinite life, as well as to describe expenditure which is genuinely incurred but which is not eligible for tax relief. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Nothings |
| English words defined with "nothings": honeyed words ♦ sweet nothings. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ah, Gotta keep cool, nothings gonna happen, I'm cool, I'm cool I'm ice baby, no cruddy lice gonna sneak up on me no sir, lice don't sneak up on ice, it ain't nice for lice to sneak up on ice, those lice better think twice cause its its no dice for those lice, no dice or ice so take my advice you cruddy lice i am not nice. (Codename: Kids Next Door; writing credit: Mr. Warburton; Tom Warburton) | |
Lyrics | And she whispering them sweet nothings (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Got me in the ear singin' sweet nothings (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | K N quick step dedicated to the Know Nothings.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sweet nothings.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Jean Paul Richter | Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. |
Morning Prayer | Lord help me to remember that nothings going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Beyond the tomb are only equal nothings. |
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| "Nothings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 78.38% of the time. "Nothings" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 78.38% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.62% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nothings": sweet nothings ♦ the little nothings of life ♦ whisper sweet nothings. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "nothings": do-nothings, good-for-nothings, have-nothings, know-nothings, soft-nothings. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nothings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا شىء من الحلاوة (sweet nothings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | immaterielle aktiver (goodwill, intangible assets, intangibles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | immateriële bestanddelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aineeton omaisuus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éléments incorporels. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | immaterielles Wirtschaftsgut, immaterieller Wert (intangible asset), immaterieller Vermögensgegenstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ברי א"ב" (sweet nothings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | édes csacskaságok (sweet nothings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | beni immateriali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 痴話 (lovers talk, sweet nothings), 喃語 (baby babble, gaga, goo-goo, lover's whispers, sweet nothings, whispered intimacies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | な"" (baby babble, difficult word, gaga, goo-goo, lover's whispers, sweet nothings, whispered intimacies), ちわ (lovers talk, sweet nothings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othingsnay mãrunţişurile (the little nothings of life). (various references) мелочи жизни (little nothings of life). (various references) elementos inmateriales. (various references) tatlı sözler (sweet nothings, words of endearment), havadan sudan konuşma (small talk, sweet nothings), boş sözlerle avutmak (whisper sweet nothings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nothings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: noodlings, northings, nothingth, nothingy, notings, Pothinus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nothings" (pronounced nu"thingz) |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hosting, noshing, nothing, stoning, tonnish. | |
-2 letters: honing, hosing, ingots, nights, ninths, nitons, nosing, noting, stingo, things, thongs, tigons, toning, tonish. | |
-3 letters: ghost, hints, hoist, hongs, ingot, nighs, night, ninth, niton, ohing, sight, sting, thing, thins, thong, tigon, tings, tongs. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gins, gist, gits, gosh, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, hogs, hong, hons, host. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gnathions, northings. | |
+2 letters: nightgowns, outshining, shortening, stonishing. | |
+3 letters: astonishing, foxhuntings, holystoning, nothingness, pothuntings, shortenings, shotgunning, smoothening. | |
+4 letters: downshifting, marathonings, nonthinkings, overhuntings, snapshotting, soothingness. | |
+5 letters: astonishingly, clotheslining, countinghouse, downrightness, halogenations, housetraining, nothingnesses, shortchanging, undershooting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 74 68 69 6E 67 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- - .... .. -. --. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o t h i n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0074 0068 0069 006E 0067 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881867475807385 |
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