blah vs zero

blah

noun
  • Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. 

  • (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. 

intj
  • An expression of mild frustration. 

  • Representing the sound of vomiting. 

  • Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant. 

adj
  • Low in spirit or health; down. 

  • Dull; uninteresting; insipid. 

verb
  • To utter idle, meaningless talk. 

zero

noun
  • Nothing, or none. 

  • A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945. 

  • The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. 

  • A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value. 

  • The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero. 

  • The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems. 

  • The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal. 

  • The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates. 

  • A person of little or no importance. 

  • A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest). 

  • The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring. 

  • A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero. 

num
  • The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0. 

adj
  • No, not any. 

  • Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less. 

  • Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form. 

  • Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less. 

verb
  • To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate an instrument scale to valid zero. 

  • To disappear. 

  • To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero. 

  • To cause or set some value or amount to be zero. 

  • To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros. 

How often have the words blah and zero occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )