Eight
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Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
(adj.) being one more than seven .
Editor: Rae--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An island in a river; an ait.
(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
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Definition
n. the cardinal number one above seven: the figure (8 or viii.) denoting eight.—adj. noting the number eight.—adjs. and ns. Eight′een eight and ten twice nine; Eight′eenmō same as Octodecimo (q.v.); Eight′eenth the ordinal number corresponding to eighteen.—n. Eight′foil (her.) an eight-leaved grass.—adjs. Eight′fold eight times any quantity; Eighth the ordinal number corresponding to eight.—n. an eighth part.—adv. Eighth′ly in the eighth place.—adjs. and ns. Eight′ieth the ordinal number corresponding to eighty; Eight′y eight times ten fourscore.—An eight a crew of a rowing-boat consisting of eight oarsmen; An eight-oar or simply Eight the boat itself; An eight days a week; Figure of eight a figure shaped like an 8 made in skating; Piece of eight a Spanish coin; The eights annual bumping boat-races which take place in the summer term in Oxford and Cambridge between the various colleges.
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Examples
- Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fleur-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The price is eight shillings the quarter of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'll come to night at eight o'clock. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What became of Little Dorrit between the two eights was a mystery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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