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Eight

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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.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English eighte, Old English (e)ahta; cognate with Dutch acht, Old Saxon, Old High German ahto (German acht), Old Norse ātta, Gothic ahtau, Latin octō, Greek oktṓ, Old Irish ocht, Welsh wyth, Breton eiz, Tocharian B okt, Lithuanian aštuonì, Albanian tetë, Armenian uth, Persian hasht, Sanskrit aṣṭáu; apparently an old dual in form, but not clear of what

Can be confused: ate, eight.

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Here are eight people who influenced him in his quest.

There's the fact that they're teaching within the eight-week term-they had eight weeks to prepare.

American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.

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Here are eight people who influenced him in his quest.

There's the fact that they're teaching within the eight-week term-they had eight weeks to prepare.

American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.

The discovery of eight tiny galaxies near our own may provide scientists with insights into the structure of the universe.

The team then tested the responses to three to eight variations of those images from the narrowed list.

The first implant lasts eight hours, the next, a few weeks.

Four of the fleet's eight vessels are high-speed catamarans.

The lowest price tends to hit between eight and two weeks before departure.

Eight off-season getaways where the throngs have yet to appear, hotel rates are down and the beaches are bare.

Over the past eight years, the survey has collected a vast amount of data on how.

The team then plotted these eight families onto a map that resembled the plots on a radar screen.

The country is creating eight new sanctuaries for the endangered animals.

For the warehouse robots sorting our sneaker orders, eight hours.

Surrounded by lesser figures, the striking specter nearly eight feet tall shimmers on the canyon wall under the relentless sun.

The eight species listed on this page are naturally suited.

But the creatures unearthed also include eight taxa previously unknown to science.

Eight city math and science teachers are to receive honors today.

When he fans the cards out, demonstrating that after eight shuffles they return to their original order, his colleagues applaud.

Indeed, six of the eight wolves followed human gestures perfectly in more than eight out of ten trials.

Most of the city's work is performed by foreigners, who now outnumber natives eight to one.

But chimps that had met only as adults and lived together for eight years still became agitated at.

The distinctively carved canoe bulged with eight paddlers sitting.

Cut five verticals to the height of the frame and eight horizontals to the frame's.

The fact is, however committed you are to your job, you can't work eight hours straight without a break.

It's something that everybody needs, and according to the experts, seven to eight hours a day is the normal amount.

Most of the professors wanted to consolidate the department's eight required.

Eight have now been given lifetime bans by the league.

These three eight-week-old pups were part of a litter of eight born at a zoo in.

Simply imposing a deadline-whether it was two or eight months away-reversed the mind's relation between work and time.

Nearly three million ounces of gold were harvested here, along with eight billion pounds of copper.

Every year for the past eight years, they've hosted it on the beach.

And they have remote controls that let you pick the color from eight choices.

There have been good surprises, such as the early delivery of a comprehensive regional review chapter written by eight co-authors.

Eight people were killed, cars were torched and shops were looted.

Georgia, and eight other options for two-day escapes near you.

But the next eight days the night skies all around the globe were filled with dazzling red, green and purple auroras.

You'll need to be in reasonably good shape, as the average distance walked each day is five to eight miles.

Eight of the custom-built squares are planters with drainage holes.

It was a little more than eight years ago, when the.

On average each person settles down with a carton of popcorn nearly eight times a year.

We provide highly skilled mountain guides who adhere to the highest safety standards and limit group size to eight guests.

Eight percent of the participants were depressed before losing his or her partner-and stayed that way.

His telescope magnified items by eight times and showed them right side up.

We adapted a smaller menu that serves eight and figured out some do-ahead possibilities.

Those are the eight who have come forward or whose alleged abuse was described by witnesses.

All eight teams in last year's play-offs ranked in the top ten in terms of payroll.

We had to hack our way through the bush for seven or eight days.

Richard died eight years later when chronic nephritis developed in his transplant.

If it gets built, plans call for a se- ries of perhaps as many as eight smaller dams.

The eight examples listed here are naturally suited to the climate.

Each item was categorized into one of eight subscales that ranged from academic distress to alcohol use and abuse.

One subprime borrower in eight is behind with the payments.

Humans and chimps are also thought to share a common ancestor who lived some four to eight million years ago.

We seem to regard seven to eight hours of unbroken sleep as our birthright.

Cracked in half, the fossil preserved eight cocoons inside.

The laid-back hideout has eight ocean-view thatched-roof bungalows and two suites.

The college is also canceling all of the open-house events set for tomorrow on eight of its campuses.

It appears to have been operating unnoticed by officials for up to eight years.

Adults grow up to eight feet long and can weigh a ton.

When the van's side panel swung open, people began to ooh and aah at the sight of eight magnificent rocking horses.

Eight of these custom-built squares are planters with drainage holes.

At eight o'clock he comes down, and the tower stays empty until the next morning.

Each large, white flower has four, heart-shaped petals and eight yellow.

In other areas, plant peas six to eight weeks before theast frost date, and potatoes four to six weeks before.

Squid are usually characterized by eight long arms and two modified shorter arms called tentacles.

The water garden took our five-person crew eight hours to install.

To seat eight people comfortably at a rectangular table, for example, it would.

Set them in well-drained soil in a spot that gets six to eight hours of sunlight.

Great to eat or drink as juice, and the fruit lasts eight to nine months on the tree.

My garden is eight blocks from the beach and this plant has done well from the moment it was planted.

In climates where it winters over, look for it to grow up to eight feet, seriously.

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eight (eɪt)

—n
1.	See also number the cardinal number that is the sum of one and seven and the product of two and four
2.	a numeral, 8, VIII, etc, representing this number
3.	music the numeral 8 used as the lower figure in a time signature to indicate that the beat is measured in quavers
4.	the amount or quantity that is one greater than seven
5.	something representing, represented by, or consisting of eight units, such as a playing card with eight symbols on it
6.	rowing
	a. a racing shell propelled by eight oarsmen
	b. the crew of such a shell
7.	Also called: eight o'clock eight hours after noon or midnight
8.	slang have one over the eight to be drunk
9.	See figure of eight

—*determiner*
10.	a. amounting to eight
	b. (as pronoun): I could only find eight

Related: octa-, octo-

[Old English eahta; related to Old High German ahto, Old Norse ātta, Old Irish ocht, Latin octō, Greek okto, Sanskrit astau]

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Word Origin & History

eight

O.E. eahta, æhta, from P.Gmc. *akhto(u) (cf. O.N. atta, Ger. acht, Goth. ahtau), from PIE *okto (cf. Gk. okto, L. octo, O.Ir. ocht-n, Bret. eiz, Skt. astau, Avestan ashta). Klein calls it "an old dual form, orig. meaning 'twice four.' " Meaning "eight-man crew of a rowing boat" is from 1847. The

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Spanish piece of eight (1690s) was so called because it was worth eight reals. To be behind the eight ball "in trouble" (1932) is a metaphor from shooting pool.

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Idioms & Phrases

eight

see behind the eight ball.

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