Nilの例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: It means "nothing" in Latin, and it is much more common in British English than in American English. More common uses are in sport scores ("6-nil") and some science settings ("nil by mouth," don't let the medical patient eat anything).

A: Arsenal had a score of 0, the opponent had a score of 2. Arsenal scored 2, and it's a tie-score; 2-2.

A: it is used in sport to indicate the score 3 - 0

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“In the end, the score was one-nil” (used in sports, alternatively “one-zero”)

“All that [effort] for nil” (alternatively “all that for naught/nothing”)

“A big fat nil” (colloquial, alternatively “a big fat zero”)

Nil is not used very commonly, outside of sports like football. Nil is (apparently) a contraction of ‘nihil’ from Latin, meaning ‘nothing’. People more commonly use the actual word ‘nothing’, or naught, or zero depending on the context. You’d only ever really see ‘nil’ in eloquent contexts or sports.

A: The chances of her being there is practically nil(~)

The upside to a trade war is ~

Obesity in Japan is ~

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This phrase is most commonly use with “chances”, like the first example.

The chances of a recover is ~
The chances of a success is ~

A: It is not very common word because 'nil' = 'zero'/'nothing'. But I'll give you an example: The differences between the audio quality is nil.

A: They're both very rare words for "nothing" in US English. In UK English, "nought" is what they call the number 0.

A: 0 is part of the numeric system and I think can be considered to be primarily that
Zero and nought and naught are the verbal representatives of the idea of 0.
But nil means nothing, which is a different concept entirely, though it is often used as a synonym for naught/ nought

A: love = 0 points, in tennis only
nil = 0, nothing

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A: Nil is slang for "zero" and "nothing". Zero is a number which refers to nothing.

A: When you're filling up a form and you see a blank that is either inapplicable to you or could be left empty, you can put in NIL to indicate that you do not have any useful information to put there, so as to show that you did not forget to fill out that blank.

For example, if you were a student, you can put NIL under "What is your monthly salary?".

You can also use NIL to represent scores. Like if A won B with a score of 3-0, you can say "Hey did you check out the game the other day? A won B three-nil."


You use 0 when the answer to the question is actually 0.

A: The match ended nil-nil.

It's still nil-nil.

The score's nil-nil

A: Nil and zero mean the same thing . Instead you can say " three nil "

Example: "what was the score last night" "we won, three nil"

Or you can also say three to zero or three zero

A: ①I'll never give up what little hope I have about nil.
②The movie has elements I'm after.

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