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eight
[ eyt ]
noun
- a cardinal number, seven plus one.
- a symbol for this number, as 8 or VIII.
- a set of this many persons or things, as the crew of an eight-oared racing shell.
- a playing card the face of which bears eight pips.
- Informal.
- an automobile powered by an eight-cylinder engine.
- an eight-cylinder engine.
adjective
- amounting to eight in number.
eight
/ eɪt /
noun
- See numberthe cardinal number that is the sum of one and seven and the product of two and four See also number
- a numeral, 8, VIII, etc, representing this number
- music the numeral 8 used as the lower figure in a time signature to indicate that the beat is measured in quavers
- the amount or quantity that is one greater than seven
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of eight units, such as a playing card with eight symbols on it
- rowing
- a racing shell propelled by eight oarsmen
- the crew of such a shell
- Also calledeight o'clock eight hours after noon or midnight
- have one over the eight slang.have one over the eight to be drunk
- See figure of eightSee figure of eight
determiner
- amounting to eight
- ( as pronoun )
I could only find eight
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Example Sentences
That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.
The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.
One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.
If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.
But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.
At six o'clock I felt once more the welcome motion of a Railroad car, and at eight was in Venice.
The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.
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