nil

CEFRB2

/nɪl/

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.

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As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19
But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.
1982, Gavin Lyall, Conduct of Major Maxim, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
[T]he overall freedom of a corpse is nil because a corpse is not someone to whom social and political liberty (or unfreedom) can ever correctly be ascribed.
2003, Matthew H[enry] Kramer, “Freedom and Force”, in The Quality of Freedom, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Instances of Freedom), page 254

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Borrowed from Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See nihilism, nihility.