nought

«nought» in Mova's school dictionary: The number zero, 0 — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a nought, noughts); number (nought)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) The number zero, 0. tree →

2) (literary) Nothing (more often spelled "naught"). tree →

sense in the lessons

A maths word in British-style schools: "nought point five" (0.5), "ten has one ten and nought ones", and the game "noughts and crosses" (US: tic-tac-toe). In maths problems, nought means the value is zero.

examples

• Write a nought in the units column. tree →
• Nought point five is the same as a half. tree →
• Let's play noughts and crosses. tree →
• The temperature fell to nought degrees. tree →
• A million has six noughts. tree →
• Anything multiplied by nought is nought. tree →
• The score was three–nought. (UK sport usually says "three–nil") tree →
• She saw nought the first day. tree →

note

UK word; Americans say "zero". In maths: adding nought changes nothing; multiplying by nought gives nought; you cannot divide by nought. Trap: "nought" (zero) vs "naught" (nothing).

In the corpora

• Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
• They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.
• For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
• All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
• That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nought» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.