Kneel vs Nil - What's the difference?
kneel | nil |
(lb) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
*
Nothing; zero.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
No, not any.
* 1982 , Gavin Lyall, Conduct of Major Maxim , Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
As a verb kneel
is (lb) to stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.As an initialism nil is
(nanotechnology) (nanoimprint lithography).kneel
English
Verb
- When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
Derived terms
* kneelerReferences
* * English irregular verbsnil
English
Noun
(en noun)- As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil .
Determiner
(en determiner)- But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.