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nought
noun as in cipher
noun as in nothing
noun as in nothing/nothingness
noun as in zero
noun as in zilch
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
He had Lions captain Tom Haines miscue to mid-on with the fifth ball he bowled then Bethell, who spent 15 balls on nought, pulled to square leg.
Vaughan made scores of 33 and nought, with no real hint of the glut of runs to come.
“Who or what was I, any longer? My life, the life of London . . . of home and work . . . all that had somehow been set at nought, in the space of little more than a day.”
On nought, Knight was given out caught behind on the field but the third umpire overturned it, saying there "inconclusive" evidence there was no bat.
If they had caught Ravindra Jadeja on nought in Manchester, or any of the six they dropped in India's second innings here, it might have been different.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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