1. [n]  a nonexistent thing
2. [n]  a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
3. [adv]  in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

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1. \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]
   1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word
      thing); -- opposed to {anything} and {something}.
            Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.
   2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;
      nothingness. --Shak.
   3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something
      irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative
      unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
            Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
                                                  --Is. xli. 24.
            'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
            This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
                                                  --Dryden.
   4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.
   {Nothing but}, only; no more than. --Chaucer.
   {To make nothing of}.
      (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or
          important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies
          from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our
          souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray.
      (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he
          said.
   

2. \Noth"ing\, adv.
   In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
         Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.  --Milton.
         The influence of reason in producing our passions is
         nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
                                                  --Burke.
   {Nothing off} (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the
      vessel close to the wind.