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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NOUGHT. See Naught.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher]

Merriam Webster's

variant of naught

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the digit 0; a cipher. 2 poet. or archaic (in certain phrases) nothing (cf. NAUGHT). Phrases and idioms: noughts and crosses a paper-and-pencil game with a square grid of nine squares, in which players seek to complete a row of three noughts or three crosses entered alternately. Etymology: OE nowiht f. ne not + owiht var. of awiht AUGHT(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Naught Naught, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.] 1. Nothing. [Written also nought.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. ``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nought Nought, n. & adv. See Naught. --Chaucer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(noughts) Note: The spelling 'naught' is also used for meaning 2. 1. Nought is the number 0. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use zero) Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month... Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency... = zero NUM 2. If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought. (FORMAL) Numerous attempts to persuade him to write his memoirs came to nought. PHRASE: V inflects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

not (chinnam; katargeo) "Nought" is to be distinguished from "naught" implying "badness" (see NAUGHT). "Nought" in the sense of "nothing," etc., is the translation of chinnam, "gratis" (Ge 29:15), and of various other words occurring once only, e.g. 'awen, "vanity" (Am 5:5); tohu, "vacancy," "ruin" (Isa 49:4); 'epha`, "nothing" (Isa 41:24); nabhel, "to fade" (Job 14:18, margin "fadeth away"); pur, "to make void" (Ps 33:10); katargeo, "to make without effect" (1Co 1:28; 2:6); oudeis, "not even one" (Ac 5:36); apelegmos, "refutation" (Ac 19:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "come into disrepute"); dorean, "without payment" (2Th 3:8, the Revised Version (British and American) "for nought"); eremoo, "to desolate" (Re 18:17, the Revised Version (British and American) "made desolate"); kataluo, "to loose down" (Ac 5:38, the Revised Version (British and American) "be overthrown"). In Apocrypha we have "set at nought" and "come to nought," etc. (1 Esdras 1:56; 2 Esdras 2:33; 8:59).

For "nought" the Revised Version (British and American) has "perish" (De 28:63); for "come to nought" (Job 8:22), "be no more"; "nought" for "not ought" (Ex 5:11), for "no might" (De 28:32); for "brought to silence," twice (Isa 15:1), "brought to nought"; the American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought" (1Co 1:19) for "bring to nothing" (the English Revised Version "reject"); "nought but terror" (Isa 28:19) for "a vexation only"; "brought to nought" (Isa 16:4) for "is at an end"; "come to nought" for "taken none effect" (Ro 9:6); "set at nought" for "despise" (Ro 14:3).

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Nothing, naught.

Moby Thesaurus

a little thing, aught, cipher, goose egg, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nullity, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, zero, zilch