Definition: 1. The lowest possible amount or level; nothing at all. 2. A quantity of no importance. 3. A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number. 4. The quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale. 5. Adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value.
Use 'zero' in a sentence:
1. The answer is zero.
2. That night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero.
3. It's a sunny late winter day, just a few degrees above zero.
4. They're now both zero.
5. It turned out that the correct answer was zero.
6. Five, four, three, two, one, zero … We have lift-off.
7. Is it zero, less than zero or more than zero?
8. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. We have lift-off.
9. I will zero them.
10. Their new device reduced labour costs to almost nil/ zero.
11. When the temperture is below zero, water freeses and ice forms.
12. It was 18 degrees below zero.
13. Critics have zeroed in on his plan to raise gasoline taxes 10 cents a gallon.
14. Now, it's zero.
15. The thermometer fell to zero last night.
16. The temperature in Arizona drops to below zero overnight.
17. We won the football game with a score of 4 to zero.
18. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.
19. Our team won by three goals to nil/ zero.
20. Water becomes solid when the temperature goes down to zero.
21. Visibility at the city's airport came down to zero, bringing air traffic to a standstill.
22. One minus one leaves nought [zero].
23. If it's not zero today, it will be zero tomorrow.
24. They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same resources.
25. Water freezes at zero degrees centigrade.
26. This is nearly zero.
27. If a home generates more power than it uses, the bill is zero.
28. I'm from zero.
29. My chances of winning are almost zero.
30. I rated my chances as zero.
31. Most people in fact got full marks in one question and zero in the other.
32. The thermometer had fallen to zero.
33. Many of the other major daily newspapers have not really zeroed in on the problem.
34. Retirees are earning near-zero interest on their savings.
35. Zero plus any number gives that number again, and zero times any number gives zero.
36. His knowledge of the subject is practically nil/ zero.
37. His chances are zero.
38. He that promises too much means zero.
39. Most of the time, the temperature stays below zero.
40. He raised the binoculars again and zeroed in on an eleventh-floor room.
41. This new ministry was being created with zero assets and zero liabilities.
42. One minus one leaves nought [ zero].
43. That means getting to zero and staying at zero.
44. They have a policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
45. Amongst the population at large the support for the present regime is virtually zero.
46. The fuel gauge reads below zero.
47. Temperatures will not rise above zero tonight.
48. My guess is that the chance that these vaccines will work is zero.
49. One minus one is zero.
50. You've left off a zero.
51. The zero waste lifestyle, she adds, is for everyone.
52. We also need to abandon the notion that agriculture can be "zero impact".
