Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Nothing; zero.

    null

    ничто́ništó, нольnolʹ

    нічогоničoho, нульnulʹ

  2. (uncountable, usually)A score of zero

    The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.

More definitions
  • a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

Examples

15 sentences
  1. The away team is winning one-nil.

    deDie Auswärtsmannschaft gewinnt mit 1 : 0. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. The away team are winning one-nil.

    deDie Auswärtsmannschaft gewinnt mit 1 : 0. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Null is zero and so is nil.

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  4. Tom made an important interception as his team defended their one-nil lead.

    deTom hat einen wichtigen Ball abgefangen, als seine Mannschaft die Eins-zu-Null-Führung verteidigte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence.

    ruВы, конечно, знаете, что математической прямой, имеющей нулевую толщину, в реальности не существует. — odexed

Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
nothing:
zero (in sports):
Русский
By meaning 1
nothing:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
zero (in sports):

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: nils
Singularnil

uncountable

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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