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ze·ro

 (zîr′ō, zē′rō)

Phrasal Verbs:

[Italian, from alteration of Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic ṣifr, nothing, cipher; see cipher.]

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zero

(ˈzɪərəʊ)

[C17: from Italian, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic sifr empty, cipher]

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ze•ro

(ˈzɪər oʊ)

n., pl. -ros, -roes, n.

1. the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.

2. an origin from which values are calibrated, as on a temperature scale.

3. a mathematical value intermediate between positive and negative values.

4. naught; nothing.

5. the lowest point or degree.

6. the absence of a linguistic element, as a morpheme, in a position in which one previously existed or might by analogy be expected to exist.

7. a sight setting on a firearm or artillery piece for striking the center of a target at any particular range.

v.t.

9. to adjust (an instrument or apparatus) to a zero point or to an arbitrary reading from which other readings are to be measured.

10. zero in, to aim (a rifle, etc.) at the precise center or range of a target.

adj.

12. amounting to zero.

13. having no measurable quantity or magnitude; not any: zero economic growth.

14. of or designating a hypothetical morphological element that is posited as existing by analogy with some regular pattern in a language but has no physical realization: Deer has a zero plural.

[1595–1605; < Italian < Medieval Latin zephirum < Arabic ṣifr cipher]

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ze·ro

(zîr′ō)

Did You Know? Zero is not nothing! It is a number that stands for nothing, and this is an important distinction. In many ways, zero is the most important of all numbers. When zero is added to or subtracted from a number, it leaves the number at its original value. Zero thus makes negative numbers possible. A negative number added to its positive counterpart always equals zero. Zero is also essential to representing many numbers, such as 203 and 1024. In these numbers zero serves as a placeholder in the system known as positional notation. Thus in 203, there are two hundreds, zero tens, and three ones. In other words, zero indicates that the value of the tens place is zero. In 1024, zero indicates that the value of the hundreds place is zero. When you think about it, if we didn’t have zero, we wouldn’t have hundreds, thousands, or millions in our number system.

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zero

• aught — Another word for «nothing, zero.»
• zero, cipher — Zero and cipher come from Arabic sifr, «nought, zero,» from Sanskrit sunya, «empty.»
• lay an egg — The egg in «to lay an egg» refers to «zero.»
• googol — Coined when mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nephew to create a word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

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zero

Past participle: zeroed
Gerund: zeroing

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In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation or null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new word class) from an existing word (of a different word class) without any change in form,^[1] which is to say, derivation using only zero. For example, the noun green in golf (referring to a putting-green) is derived ultimately from the adjective green.

Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice versa are both very common and unnotable in English; much more remarked upon is the creation of a verb by converting a noun or other word (e.g., the adjective clean becomes the verb to clean).

Verbification, or verbing, is the creation of a verb from a noun, adjective or other word.

In EnglishEdit

In English, verbification typically involves simple conversion of a non-verb to a verb. The verbs to verbify and to verb, the first by derivation with an affix and the second by zero derivation, are themselves products of verbification (see autological word), and, as might be guessed, the term to verb is often used more specifically, to refer only to verbification that does not involve a change in form. (Verbing in this specific sense is therefore a kind of anthimeria.)

Examples of verbification in the English language number in the thousands, including some of the most common words such as mail and e-mail, strike, talk,^{[dubious – discuss]} salt, pepper, switch, bed, sleep, ship, train, stop, drink, cup, lure, mutter, dress, dizzy, divorce, fool, merge, to be found on virtually every page in the dictionary. Thus, verbification is by no means confined to slang and has furnished English with countless new expressions: «access», as in «access the file», which was previously only a noun, as in «gain access to the file». Similar mainstream examples include «host», as in «host a party», and «chair», as in «chair the meeting». Other formations, such as «gift», are less widespread but nevertheless mainstream.

Verbification may have a bad reputation with some English users because it is such a potent source of neologisms. Although some neologistic products of verbification may meet considerable opposition from prescriptivist authorities (the verb sense of impact is a well-known example), most such derivations have become so central to the language after several centuries of use that they no longer draw notice.

In many cases, the verbs were distinct from their noun counterparts in Old English, and regular sound change has made them the same form: these can be reanalysed as conversion. «Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk» is an example of a sentence using those forms.^{[citation needed]}

In other languagesEdit

In other languages, verbification is a more regular process. However, such processes often do not qualify as conversion, as they involve changes in the form of the word. For example, in Esperanto, any word can be transformed into a verb, either by altering its ending to -i, or by applying suffixes such as -igi and -iĝi; and in Semitic languages, the process often involves changes of internal vowels, such as the Hebrew word «גגל» (Gigél, «He/it googled»), from the proper noun גוגל (Google).
In Toki Pona, any content word may function as a noun, verb or adjective depending on syntax. For example, moku may either mean food or to eat.

Many English nouns are formed from unmodified verbs: a fisherman’s catch, to go for a walk, etc.^[2]

Verbification is sometimes used to create nonce words or joking words. Often, simple conversion is involved, as with formations like beer, as in beer me («give me a beer») and eye, as in eye it («look at it»).^{[clarification needed]} Sometimes, a verbified form can occur with a prepositional particle, e.g., sex as in sex it up («make it sexier»).

A Calvin and Hobbes strip dealt with this phenomenon, concluding with the statement that «Verbing weirds language»,^[3] demonstrating the verbing of both verb and weird. (The former appears in its use as a gerund.)

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