Meaning of 'nought' in Xhosa is: kwesizathu

nought: kwesizathu

Noun:

unothi, akukho nto, engento, idada.

Adjective:

aluphumelelanga, ngelize, lilize, engento, Punjabi, inganiki, yanto.

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Noun(1) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

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(1) One more error and all the good work she had done on Friday would be for nought .(2) Roudaire's dream came to nought but a few years later, an engineer from Montpellier, Alphonse Duponchel, argued that a railway should be driven across the Sahara linking French colonies in North and West Africa.(3) We must not believe that the triumph of experimental science reduced to nought the dreams and ideals of the alchemist.(4) In Frost at Midnight, Coleridge, with his young son at his side, muses on his own childhood in London, where he u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510saw nought lovely but the sky and starsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(5) But if I had pride in my learning, I had more in my desire not to remain where there was nought for me but the fading memory of my father's name.(6) But if the proposition is that State amendment rules can displace and effectively set at nought the Commonwealth limitation, then we obviously would have difficulty and reject that proposition.(7) The driver tried to swerve out of he way but it was for nought : they hit the other vehicle head on and died in a blaze of fire.(8) Still, there was nought he could do, other than fight and survive.(9) It is home where the criminal attitude of the children towards women could be prevented and thus the crimes against women in the future could be brought to nought .(10) Yet the courts of the land counted as nought this wondrous devotion.(11) Their good work was set at nought a minute later when Kildare lost the ball in midfield and senior midfielder Martin McGrath raced through to stick the ball in the net four minutes from the interval.(12) Most of the Crustacean's money-making schemes came to nought .(13) But the fact the Cowboys had never beaten the Broncos counted for nought last weekend.(14) The existence of a parallel common law right, whereby individual householders who suffer sewer flooding may themselves bring court proceedings when no enforcement order has been made, would set at nought the statutory scheme.(15) With naught but a tent for shelter, the traveler is in constant danger - both from bandits and the elements.(16) Yet, tragically, the effort seems to have been for naught .