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  • 51dread|nought — dread|nought1 «DREHD NT», noun. 1. a large, powerful battleship with heavy armor and large guns. 2. Figurative. any large, powerful person or thing: »In choosing so many dreadnoughts the heaviest, Muller, is 18 stone and square as a tank the team …

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  • 52su|per|dread|nought — «SOO puhr DREHD nt», noun. any very large, heavily armored warship of the battleship class built between about 1910 and the end of World War II, usually having a main armament of eight or more guns of a single caliber in the range from 12 inches… …

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  • 53half-nought — Cleveland Dialect List (pronounced [haff nowght]) half nothing, price too small to be worth mentioning …

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  • 54naught, nought —    Although dictionaries increasingly treat the words as interchangeable, traditionally the first means nothing (as in his efforts came to naught ) and the second is used to signify the figure zero. The game is noughts and crosses (known in the… …

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  • 55naught, nought —    Although dictionaries increasingly treat the words as interchangeable, traditionally the first means nothing (as in his efforts came to naught ) and the second is used to signify the figure zero. The game is noughts and crosses (known in the… …

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  • 56set at nought — deride, scorn, slight, show contempt …

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  • 57aleph-nought — /aləf ˈnɔt/ (say ahluhf nawt) noun Mathematics the cardinal number of a countable set, such as the set of positive integers. Symbol: ℵ0 Also, aleph null, aleph zero …

  • 58aleph-nought — noun the smallest infinite integer • Syn: ↑aleph null, ↑aleph zero • Hypernyms: ↑large integer …

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  • 59neck or nought — adverb see neck or nothing …

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  • 60good-for-nought — …

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