eight
Pronunciation Numeral
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Pronunciation Numeral
- cln en A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
- 2009, Stuart Heritage ↗, Hecklerspray ↗, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About ↗”
- Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
- 2009, Stuart Heritage ↗, Hecklerspray ↗, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About ↗”
- Describing a group or set with eight elements.
- He works eight hours a day.
- Russian: восьмёрка
eight (plural eights)
- 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 (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of eighth#English|eighth
eight (plural eights)
- Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)
- osiers on their eights
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