eight
IPA: ˈeɪt
noun
- 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.
- Eight o'clock.
- Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river) [An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.]
adjective
- Obsolete spelling of eighth [The ordinal form of the number eight.]
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Examples of "eight" in Sentences
- I have ten pencils and eight erasers.
- Eight Guardian Deities adorn the antechamber.
- Only seven of the eight justices of the Court heard the appeal.
- The team with the second-best record took the title eight times.
- It was launched by seven of the eight distilleries in the region.
- One Iraqi in eight is killed by illness or violence by the age of 5.
- They scored nine tries in all, sharing them between eight luminaries.
- Eight of the ten are shrews, from the Common Shrew to the Water Shrew.
- Spa Sublime Day Spa*, Blue Mountains two eight two eight*, Central NSW
- If the eight loses to the nine, next play the ten and finesse the jack.
- Patients go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for an average of seven to eight years.
- The eight economic and financial journalists and eight economists are now expected to provoke policy debate.
- The average nubile female, aged thirteen to twenty one, is two feet, ten inches high and weighs forty eight pounds.
- How odd that eight lines should have given birth, I really think, to _eight thousand_, including _all_ that has been said, and will be on the subject! "
- The upset win was achieved and, for the first time in this tournament, the French played with flair reminiscent of that with which they won the title eight years ago.
- 'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness.
- 'It must be -- eight o'clock' -- said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness.
- On the day of the new moon, a particular observation was made upon the tide in Malay Road; and it was high water at ten minutes past eight in the morning, or nearly _eight hours and a quarter after_ the moon had passed the lower meridian; and the rise was ten feet two inches.
- Overall, in terms of the classification of the index at the two-digit level, it is seen that, during May 2010, as many as eight industry groups out of the total of 17, had recorded a growth on eight% and more as compared to four a year ago while the number of industry groups that had shown a negative growth had dropped to two from eight.
- According to the swinging of the ship in the evenings, the flood tide ceased to run at eight hours and a half after the moon passed the upper meridian, whereas in the mornings it ceased seven hours and a half after the moon passed below; whether the same difference took place in the times of high water by the shore, I cannot tell; but if the mean of the morning's and evening's tides be taken as the time of high water, it will follow _eight hours after_ the moon, the same nearly as in Malay Road.