What's the difference between aught and naught?

Aught


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aucht
  • (n.) Anything; any part.
  • (adv.) At all; in any degree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The People’s Daily says that Beijing’s most recent weather forecast -- a bitter cold weekend -- has aught to do with the end of the Mayan calendar.
  • (2) Family planning is included in the schools at all levels but sex education is t aught only at upper school levels via courses in biology, anatomy, and physiology.
  • (3) All cases selected by this method aught to be examined by means of right heart catheterization with the floating technic.
  • (4) Chicago Fire Dan Martin , Whiskey Brothers Aught Five and Hot Time in Old Town : Best game: 3-2 win over the Revs at Toyota Park.
  • (5) View the wither’d Beldam’s face; Can thy keen inspection trace Aught of Humanity’s sweet, melting grace?
  • (6) Well, sort of: the MIT-educated scientist invented electric series-elastic actuators, the technology that carried the bipedal “dinosaur” robots that wowed the scientific community in the early aughts.
  • (7) Two US marines are facing criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, after their actions were c aught on a video that circulated widely on the internet , the US military said on Monday.
  • (8) Trump has openly bragged about the fact that he sued a former New York Times reporter in the early aughts for the purpose of trying to hit the reporter involved financially.
  • (9) Both of these guys are extremely transactional,” said Lloyd Grove, who wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News, the Post’s rival publication, in the early to mid-aughts.

Naught


Definition:

  • (adv.) Nothing.
  • (adv.) The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
  • (adv.) In no degree; not at all.
  • (a.) Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
  • (a.) Hence, vile; base; naughty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A ny attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed by Edward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight.
  • (2) Support for Peres evaporated when successive bomb attacks killed dozens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and talks with Syria came to naught.
  • (3) Cotton had 36 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals for the Friars and it all ended up being for naught as No.
  • (4) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
  • (5) But the young striker is offside, and it's all for naught.
  • (6) 2.01am BST Tigers 0 - A's 0, bottom of the 3rd Stephen Vogt works a full count but it is for naught, as Verlander blows a fastball by him to make him his fifth strikeout victim.
  • (7) His efforts come to naught, as he's dispossessed by - I think - Tom Ince.
  • (8) Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon told reporters “basically, the president tried to both guilt people and then impugn their integrity” while Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota tweeted bitterly on Friday morning: “Now President Obama wants to talk?” But, all of Obama’s efforts proved for naught after Pelosi took the floor and spoke out against the deal.
  • (9) 9.56pm GMT EXTRA TIME, HALF TIME: Manchester United 1-0 Sunderland Another Sunderland corner comes to naught.
  • (10) If that is true, our efforts to act upon government advice and encouragement will have been for naught."
  • (11) United had started brightly, with Anthony Martial looking lively on the right wing, but a series of half-breaks and potential openings had come to naught.
  • (12) One was an opportunity for political dialogue, and the other an opportunity for reform following last year's BICI repor t. "Both those opportunities, however, came to naught, and the result may deal a deathblow, ironically, to the most moderate supporters of Bahrain's uprising," Dickinson says.
  • (13) When patients in treatment do not comply with medical directives, the most competent health care may go for naught and patients' well-being may be jeopardized.
  • (14) One day after a UN tribunal ruled overwhelmingly against Chinese claims to huge swaths of the strategically important waterway, Beijing rebuffed the verdict, calling it “a piece of paper that is destined to come to naught” .
  • (15) The most sophisticated repair may be for naught if the joints stiffen.
  • (16) A lifetime spent preparing, training, hour after agonizing hour, will have been for naught if an athlete dares to make a political statement at the wrong time about political events happening in a politicized Olympics; politicized in no small part by the IOC refusing to uphold their own charter when it applies to themselves.
  • (17) "Naught's had, all's Spent," laments Lady Macbeth, in the desolation that succeeds the bloody accomplishment of Duncan's murder.
  • (18) The resulting corner leads to another corner, which leads to naught, but this is all about the shot.
  • (19) Similarly prepared fractions from normal control spleens (NAc) containing 75 to 90% theta+cells and less than 10% Ig+ and naught cells were utilized in control cultures.
  • (20) At the broader policy level, policymakers must understand that efforts to reduce child mortality and improve child health will be for naught in the absence of efforts to protect against family-level deprivation.