All vs Nothing - What's the difference?
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(degree) (intensifier).
Apiece; each.
* 1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
(degree) So much.
(dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
(obsolete, poetic) even; just
* Spenser
* Gay
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
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, title= Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
: (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
: (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
Everyone.
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Everything.
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(lb) Any.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:without all remedy
Only; alone; nothing but.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
(with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
(countable) The totality of one's possessions.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
(obsolete) although
* (rfdate) Spenser
Not any thing; no thing.
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, title= An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
(slang, in double negatives) Anything
Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
* Jeremy Taylor
A trivial remark (especially in the term (sweet nothings)).
A nobody (insignificant person).
(archaic) Not at all; in no way.
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As an initialism all
is lek, currency used in albania.As a pronoun nothing is
not any thing; no thing.As a noun nothing is
something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.As an adverb nothing is
(archaic) not at all; in no way.all
English
Adverb
(-)- You’ve got it all wrong.
- She was all , “Whatever.”
- The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
- His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
- With hempen strands in spray
- Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
- The butter is all .
- All as his straying flock he fed.
- A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.
Synonyms
* completelyDeterminer
(en determiner)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
Noun
- She gave her all , and collapsed at the finish line.
- she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls.
Derived terms
* a bit of all right * after all * all about * all along * all-American * all and sundry * all-around * all around * all at once * All Blacks * all but * all clear * all-comers * all-day * all-embracing * all-encompassing * all fingers and thumbs * all-fire * All Fools' Day * all for * All Hallows * All Hallows' Day * all hands on deck * allheal * all-important * all in * all-in * all in all * all-in wrestling * all-inclusive * all-knowing * all-night * all-nighter * all of a sudden * all one * all one's life's worth * all or nothing * all-out * all over * all-over * all-overish * all over the place * all over with * all-party * all-powerful * all-purpose * all right * all-round * all-rounder * All Saints' Day * allseed * all-seeing * * allsorts * All Souls' Day * allspice * all square * all-star * all systems go * all that * all the best * all the more * all the same * all the way * all-time * all together * all told * all-too-familiar * all-up * all-up service * all up with * all very well * all-weather * and all * and all that * at all * be all ears * be-all and end-all * best of all * bugger all * catchall * coveralls * cure-all * for all * for good and all * fuck all * give one's all * go all the way * in all * know-it-all * most of all * naff all * not all there * not at all * on all fours * once and for all * overalls * sod all * when all is said and doneSee also
* any * each * every * everyone * everything * none * some *Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- All they were wondrous loth.
nothing
English
Alternative forms
* (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin'Pronoun
(wikipedia nothing) (English Pronouns)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
- I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].
Synonyms
* (not any thing) ** (standard) not a thing ** (slang) jack, nada, zip ** (vulgar slang) bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all ** (Northern English dialect) nowt :: See * (something trifling) nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportantAntonyms
* anything * everything * somethingNoun
(en noun)- What happened to your face?'' — ''It's nothing.
- Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings , but pursuances of old truths.
- You're nothing to me now!
