eight
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EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
eight
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 8.
- Synonym: oktoeight (ITU/IMO)
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EnglishEdit
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| Cardinal: eight Ordinal: eighth Latinate ordinal: octonary Adverbial: eight times Multiplier: eightfold Latinate multiplier: octuple Distributive: octuply Collective: eightsome Multiuse collective: octuplet Greek or Latinate collective: octad Greek collective prefix: octo-, octa- Latinate collective prefix: octo- Fractional: eighth Latinate fractional prefix: octant- Elemental: octuplet Greek prefix: ogdo- Number of musicians: octet Number of years: octennium | ||
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
Alternative formsEdit
- aught (Scotland, archaic, rare)
- Western (Arabic) numerals: 8
- Roman numerals: VIII
PronunciationEdit
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: āt
- IPA(key): /eɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
- Homophones: ait, ate, eyot
NumeralEdit
eight
- A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
- 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
- Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
- 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
- Describing a group or set with eight elements.
- He works eight hours a day.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: aiti
TranslationsEdit
cardinal number 8
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set or group with eight components
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NounEdit
eight (plural eights)
- The digit/figure 8.
- (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
- (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
- (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
- (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
Derived termsEdit
- aces and eights
- big eight
- crazy eights
- Cuban eight
- eight ball
- eight o'clock
- eight pack
- eight penny nail
- eight-ball
- eight-bar blues
- eight-day clock
- eight-jewel
- eight-legged essay
- eight-masted
- eight-oar
- eight-pack
- eight-penny nail
- eight-precious
- eight-spotted flea beetle
- eight-thousander
- eight-top
- eight-treasure
- eights and aces
- eighty
- eighty-eight
- feel eight feet tall
- figure eight
- figure of eight, figure-of-eight
- figure-eight
- figure-eight hitch
- grade eight
- last eight
- lazy eight
- middle eight
- number eight
- one over the eight
- piece of eight
- straight-eight
- twenty-five-eight
- two and eight
TranslationsEdit
The digit/figure 8
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Playing card with value 8
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AdjectiveEdit
eight (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of eighth
Etymology 2Edit
See ait.
NounEdit
eight (plural eights)
- Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Чипāлиннēсал декларāсиjачи нари доролбони/Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Orok language http://www.simdp.com/uploads/files/FINAL_Declaration_Uilt_v4_RE_2.pdf
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NumeralEdit
eight
- Alternative form of eighte
YolaEdit
VerbEdit
eight
- Alternative form of at (“eat”)
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 38