Nil vs Nis - What's the difference?
nil | nis |
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 noun nil
is nothing; zero.As a determiner nil
is no, not any.As a contraction nis is
form of Contraction|ne is|lang=en.As a proper noun Niš is
a city in Serbia.As an initialism NIS is
new Israeli Sheqel.nil
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.
