Rought vs Nought - What's the difference?
rought | nought |
(obsolete) (reach)
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over.
To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
To strike or touch with a missile.
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
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To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
* Milton
To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
* Cheyne
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(obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
To stretch out the hand.
To strain after something; to make efforts.
To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((past), (beyond), (above), (from) etc. something).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:
(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
* Hayward
* Alexander Pope
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
* Tennyson
* Holland
(nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
(obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
* Francis Bacon
The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
An effort to vomit; a retching.
Nothing; something which does not exist.
A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
(obsolete) Good for nothing; worthless.
* 1611 , 20:14:
Wicked, immoral.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
To abase, to set at nought.
* 1393 , , translated by Grace Warrack, 1901
* 1983 , : The Last Self-Help Book , page 25
* 2001 , William Desmond, Ethics and the Between , page 507
* 2003 , Wu Wei Wei, The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (which Made Lazarus Laugh) (ISBN 1591810078), page 81:
To no extent; in no way; not at all.
Not.
Nothing; zero.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between rought and nought
is that rought is (obsolete) (reach) while nought is (obsolete) good for nothing; worthless.As verbs the difference between rought and nought
is that rought is (obsolete) (reach) while nought is to abase, to set at nought.As a noun nought is
nothing; something which does not exist.As an adjective nought is
(obsolete) good for nothing; worthless.As an adverb nought is
to no extent; in no way; not at all.As a pronoun nought is
nothing; zero.rought
English
Verb
(head)References
*reach
English
Verb
(es)- Thy desire leads to no excess / That reaches blame.
- The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach , comes short of its reality.
- Do what, sir? I reach you not.
- (South)
- The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.
Usage notes
* In the past, raught'', ''rought'' and ''retcht could be found as past tense forms; these are now obsolete, except perhaps in some dialects.Derived terms
* far-reaching * forereach * outreach * overreach * reachable * reach an early grave * reach for the stars * rereach *Noun
(es)- The fruit is beyond my reach .
- to be within reach of cannon shot
- and we have learned not to fire at any of the dinosaurs unless we can keep out of their reach for at least two minutes after hitting them in the brain or spine, or five minutes after puncturing their hearts—it takes them so long to die.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
- Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
- And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach , interposed.
- I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.
- To call George eloquent is certainly a reach .
- The river's wooded reach .
- The coast is very full of creeks and reaches .
- The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design.
Derived terms
* arm's reach * beam reach * boardinghouse reach * broad reach * dry reach * earreach * eyereach * gunreach * reach-around * reachlessStatistics
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----nought
English
Alternative forms
* naught, nocht (Scottish ), nowtNoun
(en noun)- 0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
Derived terms
* noughties * noughty * dreadnoughtAdjective
(head)- It is nought', it is ' nought , saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
- No man can be stark nought at once.
Verb
(en verb)- In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting' that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly '''noughted''', and we shall be '''noughted''' following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully ' noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)
- The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.
- Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted .
- What is the use of noughting' yourself? Who is ' noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself.