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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("eight" is a kind of...):
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Eight" is a kind of...):
school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
Synonyms:
8; eight; eighter; eighter from Decatur; octad; octet; octonary; ogdoad; VIII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eight" is a kind of...):
digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than seven
Synonyms:
8; eight; viii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Their gold-dust had weighed up something like eight thousand dollars, and they could not but be contented.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Pieces of eight! till you wondered that it was not out of breath, or till John threw his handkerchief over the cage.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I had particularly asked to be called at eight, so I was very much astonished at this forgetfulness.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now I am twenty-eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A natural number greater than ninety-eight and less than one hundred and the quantity that it denotes.
(Ninety Nine, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene (~2.2 kb) that results from a chromosomal inversion inv(22)(q12q12) which fuses the first eight exons of the EWSR1 gene with the PATZ1 gene.
(EWSR1/PATZ1 Fusion Gene Long A Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene (~2.3 kb) that results from a chromosomal inversion inv(22)(q12q12) which fuses the first eight exons of the EWSR1 gene with the PATZ1 gene.
(EWSR1/PATZ1 Fusion Gene Long B Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene (~1.9 kb) that results from a chromosomal inversion inv(22)(q12q12) which fuses the first eight exons of the EWSR1 gene with the PATZ1 gene.
(EWSR1/PATZ1 Fusion Gene Short Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)
SMAD3 and SMAD4 proteins specifically recognize an eight base pair palindromic DNA sequence that confers TGF-beta responsiveness to a minimal promoter.
(Mothers Against Decapentaplegic Homolog 3, NCI Thesaurus)
I should fight at thirteen-eight, and ’ere I am nearly seventeen.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
