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• (zip)- zero or nothing; The score of last night's hockey game was 4–zip;
• (zilch)- zero; nothing; Zero, zip, zilch -- actually, it was even less than that;
• (cipher)- nonentity, worthless person or thing, ( ,
); This cipher is an old-acquaintance. — The Cryptogram A Novel;
• (encipher)- encode;
• (cipher)- slang, "nothing," 1933, introduced by Hemingway;
• (nada)- the numeral zero, often used to indicate the failure of a team to
score in a game or unit of a game;
• (goose egg)- nothing, not so, no;
• (nix)- nothing; naught; zero;
• (nil)- without value, effect, consequence, or significance;
cipher {encrypt} [nonentity]
• (nonentity)- encrypt;
• a person or thing of no importance, ( ; ); They
reckoned him a nonentity, a dreamer, incapable of laying his hands on
France, and especially of maintaining his authority. — The Fortune of the
Rougons;
minute^ minutiae
• (minute)- extremely small, as in size, amount, extent, or degree, ( ,
set them apart;
); The twin resembled one another closely, only minute difference
• (minutiae)- precise details; small or trifling matters, (
, ); Every scene in which they had been together was
lived over in all its minutiae, and his conclusions were favorable. — From
Jest to Earnest;
infinitesimal ~ miniscule = midget = tiny = puny = runty = shrimpy = lilliputian :
dwarf
• (infinitesimal)- indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute, ( ,
); No matter how infinitesimal, the employment generated by these
outfits is hard to overlook;
• (minuscule)- very small; As the risk was minuscule, premiums were tiny;
• (stoic)- a small or miniature version of something; The stairs of water hung
there, in what used to be air, as if waiting for a midget submarine to slide
down its banister. — Even Cowgirls Get The Blues;
• (puny)- unimportant; insignificant; petty or minor, ( , ,
); The children of such parents are commonly feeble and puny, and die
early if they survive infancy. — Plain Facts for Old and Young;
• (runty)- stunted; dwarfish; The little, runty apples would try to hold a mass