(n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
(n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
(n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
(n.) A cipher; naught.
(adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(5) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
(6) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(7) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(11) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(12) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
(13) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(14) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
(15) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(16) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(17) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(18) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(19) I’d argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
(20) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
Zip
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
(2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
(3) You have to create an online account in order to get any information about plans and costs, so I went through the process of creating a username and password, and gave my date of birth and zip code.
(4) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(5) He is chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power to California, and this week he revealed more detail on perhaps his most intriguing business idea yet, something some consider one of history's craziest-sounding transportation fancies: the Hyperloop , an 800mph self-powered ground-based system that could zip between LA and San Francisco in half-an-hour.
(6) These results suggest a close association or overlap of the DNA binding and nuclear targeting domains of B-ZIP proteins.
(7) giant protein made in bacteria or in embryos binds in vitro to the Krüppel regulatory elements CD1 and CD2 and recognizes a sequence resembling the binding sites of other b-ZIP proteins.
(8) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
(9) A complementary DNA that encoded a member of the basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper (bHLH-Zip) family of proteins was isolated.
(10) A monodimensional electrophoretic method for the separation of glycosaminoglycans on Titan III Zip Zone cellulose acetate plate based on their different electrophoretic mobilities in barium acetate and different solubilities in ethanol was applied to the Chemetron electrophoretic equipment.
(11) The cys-3 gene encodes a regulatory protein of 236 amino acid residues with a leucine zipper and an upstream basic region (the b-zip region) which together may constitute a DNA-binding domain.
(12) Zoster immune plasma (ZIP) was evaluated for treatment of cutaneous disseminated zoster in immunocompromised hosts.
(13) A survey of the practice styles and preferences of 1988 ASCRS members with a U.S. zip code was taken in September 1988.
(14) To determine whether emergency department complaint frequency varies with patient median household income, as approximated by patient residence zip code.
(15) Using the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, we obtained discharge data for 1,034 patients over age 39, who were hospitalized for stroke from 1983 to 1986, using four zip code areas of the ethnically mixed community of Northern Manhattan.
(16) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
(17) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
(18) Hence, in this "b-HLH-zip" class of proteins, the leucine zipper functions in concert with the HLH both to stabilize protein-protein interactions and to establish dimerization specificity.
(19) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(20) So onwards and outwards… Get the adrenalin pumping Down the line: Zip World opens to the public in Bethesda, north Wales.