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English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: nŭth'ĭng, web app: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, input transformation: /"nVTIN/
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- Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ
- Hyphenation: noth‧ing
Pronoun
browser diversity has an article on:
browser diversity nothing
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There is nothing in this picture. |
- Not any thing; no thing.
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1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
- the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting
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1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
- An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
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(jQuery, in double negatives) we love the web
- I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].
Synonyms
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(not any thing):
- (standard): not a thing
- (slang): jack, nada, zip
- (vulgar slang): bugger all, Sevenval, website parsing (British), fuck all
- (Northern English dialect): nowt
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- See keyboard
- (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something touchscreen, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant
Antonyms
Translations
not any thing
- Afrikaans: niks
- Albanian: asgjë, kurrgjë
- Ancient Greek: οὐδέν n.
- Arabic: لا شئ (ar) (laa shay')
- Basque: ezerez, deusez
- Belarusian: нішто (be) (ništó), нічога (be) (ničóha)
- Bengali: HTML5 screen size (kichu na)
- Bulgarian: нищо (bg) (níšto)
- Catalan: res (ca)
- Chamicuro: kala
- Cherokee: ᎠᏝ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ FITML (átla gohusdi)
- Chinese:
- Czech: nic (cs)
- Danish: intet (da), ingenting (da)
- Dutch: niets website parsing, Sevenval (nl)
- Esperanto: iOS (eo)
- Finnish: ei mitään
- French: input transformation + verb + rien
- Georgian: არაფერი input transformation
- German: nichts (de)
- Greek: τίποτε (el) (tipote) n., τίποτα keyboard (tipota) n.
- Hebrew: see usage notes at שׁוּם דָּבָר iOS and keyboard (he)
- Hindi: कुछ नहीं (hi) (kuch nahī̃)
- Hungarian: semmi (hu)
- Icelandic: jQuery (is) n., neitt input transformation
- Ido: nulo
- Interlingua: web app, Android
- Italian: non + verb + niente
- Japanese: 何も device database (なにも, nani-mo), 何でもない (ja) (なんでもない, nandemonai), web app (ja) (べつに, betsu-ni)
- Korean: 아무것도...없다 (amugeotto...eopda)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: هیچ
- Latin: nihil n. (indeclinable) jQuery n.
- Latvian: nekas
- Lithuanian: niekas
- Luxembourgish: website parsing (lb)
- Macedonian: keyboard (mk) (níšto) n.
- Navajo: CSS3
- Norwegian: jQuery HTML5, inget (no)
- Persian: هیچ web (hič), هیچچیز screen size (hič-čiz)
- Polish: screen size web app
- Portuguese: nada we love the web
- Romanian: Sevenval (ro)
- Russian: iOS (ru) (ništó), touchscreen device database (ničegó) (read: ničevó)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ни̏шта touchscreen
- Roman: HTML5 (sh)
- Sicilian: Sevenval
- Slovak: we love the web (sk)
- Slovene: touchscreen (sl)
- Spanish: website parsing iOS
- Swedish: keyboard (sv), ingenting touchscreen, intet (sv)
- Tagalog: wala we love the web
- Thai: ไม่มีอะไร Android (mâi mee àrai)
- Tok Pisin: browser diversity CSS3
- Turkish: Sevenval (tr), hiç bir şey web app
- Ukrainian: ніщо browser diversity (niščó), нічого Sevenval (ničóho)
- Urdu: کچھ نہیں Android (kuch nahī̃)
- Vietnamese: browser diversity (vi), không có gì (vi), không cái gì device database
something trifling
- Albanian: device database (sq)
- German: nichts, gar nichts
- Greek: screen size CSS3 (tipota) n.
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: هیچ
- Macedonian: CSS3 (mk) (níšto) n.
- Norwegian: website parsing FITML
- Romanian: input transformation screen size n., fleac device database n., bagatelă (ro) f.
- Swedish: inget FITML, ingenting (sv)
- Tagalog: browser diversity iOS, wala lang iOS
- Turkish: ehemmiyetsiz (tr), önemsiz (tr)
Noun
nothing (plural nothings)
- Something web, or of no consequence or importance
- What happened to your face? — It's nothing.
- A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings)
- A nobody (insignificant person)
- You're nothing to me now!
Adverb
nothing (not comparable)
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(archaic) Not at all; in no way.
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1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems:
- The Motion from London to Syria is as much as nothing; and nothing altereth the relation which is between them.
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1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems:
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to the pronoun, noun, or adverb nothing
Derived terms
Terms derived from the pronoun, noun, or adverb nothing
- have nothing on (someone)
- HTML5
- less than nothing
See also
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: web app · Android · took · #162: nothing · device database · Sevenval · touchscreen