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# aught

«aught» in Mova's school dictionary: **anything at all** — 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

pronoun (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) Aught means anything at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/#m1)

2) In «for aught I know» it means as far as I know, for all I know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, a way of asking if someone knows anything about a matter.

### examples

- Do you know aught of the lost boy? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/#x1)
- If you hear aught, come and tell me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/#x2)
- She may be at home, for aught I know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; in old tales «aught» means anything, not zero, so do not read it as a count

### In the corpora

- [And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.279/)
- [And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.291/)
- [But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.292/)
- [And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.747/)
- [And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.865/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aught» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aught/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.