noth·ing /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
 無,不關緊要之事,零(ad.)毫不,決不


 nothing
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 Noth·ing n.
 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
    Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.   --Dryden.
 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
    Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.   --Is. xli. 24.
 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
 This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.   --Dryden.
 4. Arith. A cipher; naught.
 Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer.
 To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. “We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.” --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.


 Noth·ing, adv. In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
    Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.   --Milton.
    The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.   --Burke.
 Nothing off Naut., an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.

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 nothing
      n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
           ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
           done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
           for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nil,
            nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, {goose
           egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip]
      2: a nonexistent thing [syn: nonentity]
      adv : in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"