aught

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
aught
    n 1: 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" [syn: {nothing},
         {nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher},
         {goose egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}, {zippo}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own,
   p. p. [=a]hte.]
   Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aught \Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a]
   ever + wiht. [root]136. See {Aye} ever, and {Whit}, {Wight}.]
   Anything; any part. [Also written {ought}.]
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         There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord
         has spoken.                              --Josh. xxi.
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         But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
   At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "aught":
      aggrandize, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, augment,
      beef up, boost, cipher, either, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend,
      goose egg, heighten, hike, magnify, multiply, nada, naught, nichts,
      nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all,
      nothing on earth, nothing whatever, raise, some, something,
      somewhat, thing of naught, zero, zilch

    

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