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EIGHTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One part in eight equal parts
Synonyms:
eighth; one-eighth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eighth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Position eight in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("eighth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position
Synonyms:
8th; eighth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
In humans, the developing organism from the time of fertilization until the end of the eighth week of gestation, when it is called a fetus.
(Embryo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Say, Joe, was his greeting to his old-time working-mate next morning, there's a Frenchman out on Twenty-eighth Street.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Researchers say there is a submerged continent in the southwest Pacific Ocean, that should be considered an eighth continent.
(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)
Today, measurements by Earth-based telescopes indicate the oval that Juno flew over has diminished in width by one-third and height by one-eighth since Voyager times.
(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)
The eighth cranial nerve composed of the acoustic nerve and the vestibular nerve.
(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)
When the cochlea moves in response to sound, a slight shearing force occurs between the basilar and tectorial membranes, the stereocilia bend and send electrical impulses to the brain via the eighth cranial nerve.
(Inner Hair Cell of the Organ of the Corti, NCI Thesaurus)
She was delighted with the fortitude of her little friend—for fortitude she knew it was in her to give up being in company and stay at home; and she could now invite the very person whom she really wanted to make the eighth, Jane Fairfax.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mercury will go retrograde in your joint financial sector (eighth house) from February 16 to March 9, so you will be focused on money matters and paperwork.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Besides the Eltons, it must be the Westons and Mr. Knightley; so far it was all of course—and it was hardly less inevitable that poor little Harriet must be asked to make the eighth:—but this invitation was not given with equal satisfaction, and on many accounts Emma was particularly pleased by Harriet's begging to be allowed to decline it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
