Shutout vs. Zilch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Shutout and Zilch
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Definitions
Shutout
In team sports, a shutout (US) or clean sheet (UK) is a game in which one team prevents the other from scoring any points. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.
Zilch
Zero; nothing.
Shutout
See lockout.
Zilch
A person regarded as being insignificant; a nonentity.
Shutout
(Sports) A game in which one side does not score.
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Zilch
Amounting to nothing; nil
"Business was zilch" (New York).
Shutout
Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
A shutout is a reverse strike: the union complained and the workers wanted to work, but management was opposed.
Zilch
A nobody: a person who is worthless in importance or character.
Shutout
(sports) A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.
The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.
Zilch
Nothing, zero.
Her search for decent home-made winter clothes came up with zilch, so she had to get imported stuff.
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Shutout
A defeat in a game where one side fails to score
Zilch
No, zero, non-existent.
Zilch
To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.
Zilch
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
