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单词 five foot nothing
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five foot nothing
4. That which is not any number or quantity; a figure or character representing this; zero. Also: a score of no points in a game; a measurement of zero (as zero inches in five foot nothing, etc.). Also figurative. Cf. nought n. 1c.
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?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 27 (MED) Multiplye 2 be a 0, it wol be nothynge.
1608 G. Wilkins Painfull Adventures Pericles iii. sig. C1v Describing the sorrows which their almost vnpeopled Citty felt, who from the height of multiplication were substracted, almost to nothing.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 188 Thou art an O without a figure, I am better then thou art now, I am a foole, thou art nothing . View more context for this quotation
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband ii. i. 20 I have a Game in my Hand, in which, if you'll croup me, that is, help me to play it, you shall go five hundred to nothing.
1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 6 Consequently o will be nothing, and therefore all the Terms wherein it is found will be nothing.
1756 N. Saunderson Method of Fluxions 2 The Fluxion of a constant Quantity is nothing.
1868 Field 28 Nov. 446/3 This match..ended in favour of the School by five shies to nothing.
1891 Daily News 30 Nov. 4/7 Yorkshire beat Lancashire..by the narrow margin of a penalty goal to nothing.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 12/2 In neutral, and still more in acid solutions, the dissociation of the indicator is practically nothing, and the liquid is colourless.
1965 B. Friel Philadelphia, here I Come! 72 You mind the size of Jimmy?—five foot nothing and scared of his shadow.
1987 M. Brett How to read Financial Pages xvii. 189 The value of the XYZ shares is unlikely to fall to nothing.
2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 3 Feb. 25 It wasn't like Brian began each diary entry with: ‘weight: 7 stone nothing.’
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