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How to sign: a quantity of no importance
"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it";
Similiar / Same: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, cypher
Categories: relative quantity
Within this category: bugger all, nihil
How to sign: convert ordinary language into code
"We should encode the message for security reasons";
Similiar / Same: encode, encipher, cypher, encrypt, write in code, code, inscribe
Categories: write
How to sign: make a mathematical calculation or computation
See also: solve, figure out, puzzle out, depend, lick, bet, reckon, calculate, work out, count, look, work
Similiar / Same: calculate, compute, cypher, reckon, figure, work out
Categories: reason
Within this category: add, average, budget, capitalize, differentiate, divide, estimate, extract, factor, integrate, interpolate, miscalculate, multiply, process, prorate, quantize, recalculate, resolve, subtract, survey
How to sign: a person of no influence
Similiar / Same: nobody, nonentity, cypher
Categories: commoner, common man, common person
Within this category: pip-squeak, whippersnapper
How to sign: a secret method of writing
Similiar / Same: cryptograph, secret code, cypher
Categories: code
