The use of "aught" to mean "nothing," "zero," or "cipher" is a nineteenth-century corruption of the word "naught," which actually does mean nothing, and which, as in the phrase "all for naught," is still in current usage.
To say: "God, I believe" when others deny, "I hear" when there is no answer, "I see" though naught is seen-This is Faith.
In 1985, about 55percentt of all universities had zero women on the physics faculty; today, that percentage of naughts is down to 12.
Nu-disco, the house-disco hybrid that emerged in the mid-naughts, is a hit and miss kind of genre.
When this war came to naught, he was transferred to the Austrian Netherlands in 1791, to help contain a local uprising.
For naught! Steve Ellison is operating a controller in this video — the Akai MPD24, to be precise.
Poor Richard was naught but pretense.
Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced Tick-Naught-Han), is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, teacher and peace activist.
(Ophelia to Hamlet: "You are naught, you are naught". Hamlet to himself: "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!") Is "Hamlet," they wonder, "a nihilist drama"?
