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Nadir vs Nix - What's the difference?

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Nadir is a synonym of nix.


As proper nouns the difference between nadir and nix

is that nadir is a male given name while nix is (astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .

nadir

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
  • * 1638 , Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique :
  • (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.
  • * 1950 , Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book :
  • In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
  • (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
  • The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
  • (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
  • References

    * 1860 , Henry Taylor, The Beekeepers Manual , page 24.

    Synonyms

    * (lowest point) lowest ebb, slough of despond, trough

    Antonyms

    * (point of heavens opposite the zenith) zenith * (lowest point) height, peak * (beekeeping) duplet, super

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
  • Anagrams

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    nix

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial): nothing.
  • Synonyms
    * nada * zip

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
  • Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 17 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”}}
  • To destroy or eradicate.
  • References

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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