eighth
IPA: ˈeɪtθ
noun
- The person or thing in the eighth position.
- One of eight equal parts of a whole.
- (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
verb
- to divide by eight
adjective
- The ordinal form of the number eight.
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Examples of "eighth" in Sentences
- Hello, I'm in eighth grade.
- It was the eighth appearance of the event.
- The song is the eighth track on the album.
- Aquino is the eighth president to be a smoker.
- Play stopped momentarily in the eighth inning.
- The play stopped momentarily in the eighth inning.
- The summit is the eighth highest in the Teton Range.
- Harmonious editing is the eighth wonder of the world
- The Nomenclature is clear, the round is the Eighth finals.
- The seventh and eighth pairs of appendages are the four spinnerets.
- When I was in eighth grade, she and my father had tried to quit drinking.
- When I was in eighth grade I was shorter than every girl in the seventh grade.
- "Under such conditions," said I, "what we call the eighth commandment would be superfluous."
- Herodotus thought Homer lived "the day before yesterday" because he belonged to what we call the eighth century.
- [1456] The argument here is due to a misapprehension of the meaning of the term eighth in Psalm vi. and xi.title. cf.n. on De Sp.S. S: 66.
- The film, featuring Best Actor contender Jeff Bridges, expanded into 819 theatres nationwide, earning an estimated $3.6 million in eighth place or a 58% increase over last week.
- I would now lead my companion a little closer to what the apostle says in the nineteenth verse; to come closer, if we may, to the idea that burned in his heart when he wrote what we call the eighth chapter of his epistle to the Romans.
- The eighth is not merely one of the seven restored, but a new power or person proceeding out of the seven, and at the same time embodying all the God-opposed features of the previous seven concentrated and consummated; for which reason there are said to be not eight, but only seven heads, for the eighth is the embodiment of all the seven.