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n. (名詞 noun)[U]



          1.    【古】任何事物,任何一部分

          2.    零;無物

                      read .01 as point aught one

                      把.01讀作點零一



ad. (副詞 adverb)



          1.    【古】在任何程度上,根本

                      He doesn't care aught for that.

                      他一點也不喜歡那個。





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–noun 

1. anything whatever; any part: for aught I know.  



–adverb

 2. Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect.  





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



aught (pron., n., adv.)   

 

The pronoun is archaic except in the idiomatic for aught I know and similar uses; 



as a noun, it still means "zero" and stems from the faulty division of the words a naught into an aught; as an adverb aught is archaic (if in fact it isn’t a noun in this use): I don’t care aught for her now. 



Don’t confuse it with its homophone, the auxiliary ought. 





 

I hate to sound like an old man 'kids these days!' type but I'm so nostalgic for the early aughts. And that was not long ago. I long for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings or Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon when I watch action flicks.





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