eight
Енглески
Енглески===Etymology
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From Средњи Енглески eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Lua грешка in Модул:etymology at line 156: Стари Енглески (ang) is not set as an ancestor of Енглески (en) in Модул:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Енглески is Early Modern English (en-ear) (an etymology-only language whose regular parent is Енглески (en)).., from Lua грешка in Модул:etymology at line 156: Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) is not set as an ancestor of Енглески (en) in Модул:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Енглески is Early Modern English (en-ear) (an etymology-only language whose regular parent is Енглески (en)).., from Lua грешка in Модул:etymology at line 156: Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) is not set as an ancestor of Енглески (en) in Модул:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Енглески is Early Modern English (en-ear) (an etymology-only language whose regular parent is Енглески (en))... Cognate with Шкотски aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Холандски acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), Немачки acht (“eight”), Норвешки åtte (“eight”), Шведски åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Латински octo (“eight”), Антички Грчки ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Ирски ocht (“eight”).
====Alternative forms
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- aught (Scotland, archaic, rare)
- Western (Arabic) numerals: 8
- Roman numerals: VIII
====Pronunciation
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- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: āt, IPA(кључ): /eɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - Риме: -eɪt
- Homophone: ate
====Numeral
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eight
- 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.
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cardinal number 8
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set or group with eight components
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====Noun
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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.
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Изведени термини
=====Translations
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The digit/figure 8
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Playing card with value 8
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===Adjective
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eight (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of eighth
===Etymology
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See ait.
====Noun
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eight (plural eights)
- Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)
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- osiers on their eights
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Tighe (alphagram eghit)
Middle English
===Numeral
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eight
- Alternative form of eighte
Yola
===Verb
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eight
- to eat
===References
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- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)