eight

IPA: ˈeɪt

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.]

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.
It was launched by seven of the eight distilleries in the region.
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.
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.