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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#m1)

2) (literary) Nothing (more often spelled "naught"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x1)
- Nought point five is the same as a half. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x2)
- Let's play noughts and crosses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x3)
- The temperature fell to nought degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x4)
- A million has six noughts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x5)
- Anything multiplied by nought is nought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x6)
- The score was three–nought. (UK sport usually says "three–nil") [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x7)
- She saw nought the first day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nought/#x8)

### 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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.127/)
- [They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.216/)
- [For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.613/)
- [All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.853/)
- [That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.862/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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