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UK
/nˈɪks/
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[ US /ˈnɪks/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪks/ ]
NOUN
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a quantity of no importance
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
reduced to nil all the work we had done
I didn't hear zilch about it
it was all for naught
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
VERB
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command against
I forbid you to call me late at night
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Dad nixed our plans
How To Use nix In A Sentence
- Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
- Virtually any UNIX or Linux system will compile SISAL code in single processor mode.
- Union officials privately acknowledge that Phoenix's achilles heel has always been the difficulties it would face raising the necessary finance.
- If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says: Think Progress
- The Phoenix Mills Compound, that Ruia conceptualized, is an icon in the Indian retail space. India's Atul Ruia
- San Francisco poets Tarin Towers and Daphne Gottlieb, Eitan Kadosh from L.A. and Phoenix's Eirein Bradley barnstormed with O'Hara through 35 U.S. cities over the summer.
- Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
- But the city nixed both ideas, which sent everybody back to the drawing board.
- President Nixon devalues the dollar, journeys to Peking and Moscow; the future remains unknown.
- I am pretty certain that during his actual practice lifetime Dr. Egnor utilized these studies and never counted on the brains of his patients to be so intelligently designed that they would all be optimally perfectly identical. coturnix Egnorance Overload - The Panda's Thumb