Eight

Definition: Eight

Eight

Adjective

1. Being one more than seven.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "eight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Eight

Amusement

Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.

Deputy

Team, eight, eleven; champion.

Five

Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Crosswords: Eight

Pidgin English (eight).

He served 6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight year old. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

You do that and I'll put all eight inches of steel in your ear. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I've given birth to eight babies (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham)

Eight days a week (Eight Days a Week (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles)

He blows it eight to the bar in boogie rhythm (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler)

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

Then suddenly you're eight feet tall (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

There are three billion women who don't look like super models and only eight who do. (references; author: unknown)

A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors. (references; author: unknown)

Eight Masters (1974)

Visions of Eight (1973)

Eight Ball (1972)

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Eight on the Lam (1967)

Eight Days A Week (performing artist: The Beatles)

SIX, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE� (performing artist: Wilson Pickett� )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Eight Consultants Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Technol Eight Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Eight Brocades Seated Ch'Ikung (reference)

• Jonny Bowden's Shape Up Workbook: Eight Weeks to Diet and Fitness Success with Recipes, Tips, and More (reference)

• Eight Skilled Gentlemen (reference)

• Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series) (reference)

• New American Painting As Shown in Eight European Countries 1958-1959: Exhibition (Museum of Modern Art Publications in Reprint from Arno Press) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• House Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities (reference)

• Political Risk Yearbook - All Eight Regions (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Eight Legged Freaks (Widescreen Edition) (reference)

• Dinner at Eight (reference)

• Eight Men Out (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Vivaldi and Piazzolla: Eight Seasons (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. Wreck Room Arcade: Eight Ball Chaos (Jewel Case) (reference)

• EIGHT RJ45 TO DB25 CABLES FOR T (reference)

• Ultimate Eight Ball (reference)

• Shiva Corporation Eight Pack Tip Lr/E Plus Prom/ 56K Modem (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Meal Package, Selection Eight (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a family group of a father, mother and eight children around a piano. One of the younger women is playing the piano and the others are following the music and singing. They raise their hands while singing. It appears to be a family room home setting. These people are a Mormon family. They are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The anal segment of Mansonia mosquito bears four prominent hair tufts on the ventral aspect of the saddle. Comb scales on the eighth abdominal segment usually number less than eight. Credit: CDC.

"Nonconvex Octahedron" (movie) by Bronek Pabich. Showing how eight planes form a nonconvex octahedron.

"Stellated Octahedron" (movie) by Bronek Pabich. Showing how eight triangles form a stellated octahedron.

This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q ... Credit: NASA.

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the ... Credit: NASA.

A large tuna is landed by a group of eight fishermen. Credit: Fisheries.

A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries.

A composite image of the northern hemisphere obtained from ESSA 5 polar orbiting satellite data. Eight tropical storms are active in this image. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Eight scientific meeting of the international society of hypertension. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. (reference)

Germany undertakes to deliver to Belgium eight million tons of coal annually for ten years. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You must give three oughts to one or two pictures, two oughts to three or four, and one ought to eight or nine

Her husband died, leaving the eldest of these children eight, the youngest one year old.

Off horse is eight, near is ten, but might of been twin colts the way they work together

The bed was eight yards from the floor

14.72 1/2 Food eight months

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Seven of the eight patients survived. (references)

Eight to 10 weeks after infection, the indeterminate stage begins. (references)

By comparison, other bacteria such as E. coli form colonies within eight hours. (references)

Business

The tariff rate on this equipment is eight percent. (references)

Taiwan originally planned to build eight missile frigates. (references)

The top eight importers account for 59 percent of all imports. (references)

Children

Guatemala

Only one of eight girls who begin school graduates from the 6th grade. (references)

Sri Lanka

The Department of Social Services operates eight vocational training schools for persons with physical and mental disabilities and sponsors a program of job training and placement for graduates. (references)

Ireland

The Minister of State (junior minister) for Health has special responsibility for children's policy, including monitoring the implementation of the Child Care Act by the eight regional health boards. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mali

Eight domestic servers provide access to the Internet. (references)

Sweden

The country has been criticized eight times by the Committee. (references)

Ethiopia

Internet services were installed in eight cities outside the capital by year's end. (references)

Discrimination

Australia

In its 1999-2000 report, the HREOC stated that it received eight complaints about discrimination based on sexual orientation. (references)

Economic History

India

India has eight EPZ's. (references)

Cayman Islands

Subdivisions: Eight districts. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

On January 28, eight other inmates killed two inmates. (references)

Zimbabwe

Police killed eight persons during the 1998 food riots. (references)

Hungary

Eight cases remained pending before the courts at year's end. (references)

Indigenous People

Dominica

Carib Indians over the age of 18 who reside there are eligible to vote for the Chief and eight members of the Council of Advisors. (references)

Venezuela

The family of four--Cruz (age 50), Lorenzo (age 28), Ana Maria (age 25), and Rosa Maria Flores (age 9)--had returned from a hunting expedition and were eating when a group of eight nonindigenous persons armed with machetes and firearms attacked them. (references)

Minorities

India

Early in the year, eight Sikhs were killed, allegedly by an obscure militant group. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

Eight percent is with the United States. (references)

THAILAND

The usual workday in industry is eight hours. (references)

MEXICO

The rest are from eight other government agencies. (references)

Political Rights

Ghana

Other parties and independents won the remaining eight seats. (references)

Malawi

Eight of the 35 cabinet members are women; women hold 17 of the 193 seats in the National Assembly. (references)

Burkina Faso

Seventeen parties participated in the elections; however, eight opposition parties actively boycotted them. (references)

Trade

Senegal

Eight commercial banks operate in Senegal. (references)

Costa Rica

Today, eight FTZs operate in Costa Rica, six of which are privately managed. (references)

Bolivia

Establishing a subsidiary can prove to be a difficult process taking four to eight months. (references)

Travel

South Africa

The application process normally takes six to eight weeks. (references)

Ghana

A month consists of 27 working days and a working day is eight (8) hours. (references)

Mexico

Mexico City has eight local TV stations that broadcast Spanish language programming. (references)

Women

Ghana

On May 8, a suspect who police had arrested in February, confessed to eight of the murders. (references)

Pakistan

The HRCP estimates that at least eight women, five of them minors, are raped every day, and more than two-thirds of those are gang-raped. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

It was unclear if the eight Turks were victims of trafficking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "eight": eight ball ♦ Eight cone ♦ eight cranial nerve ♦ eight freedom ♦ eight hundred ♦ eight hundredth ♦ Eight Mile ♦ eight queens problem ♦ eight queens puzzle ♦ eight thousand ♦ eight times ♦ eight to fourteen modulation ♦ Eighty Eight ♦ Estoile of eight points ♦ figure eight ♦ figure of eight ♦ figure of eight test ♦ have had one over the eight ♦ have one over the eight ♦ lazy eight ♦ of eight ♦ piece of eight ♦ point appearance of a distant eight ♦ section Eight ♦ the Developing Eight Economic Cooperation Group ♦ till eight. Additional references.

Beginning with "eight": eight-acre, eight-album, eight-and-a-half, eight-and-a-half-months, eight-arm, eight-aside, eight-band, eight-bar, eight-barrel, eight-beat, eight-bed, eight-bedded, eight-bedroom, eight-bedroomed, eight-bell, eight-bit, eight-bit clean, eight-branched, eight-burner, eight-by-five, eight-by-tens, eight-cell, eight-celled, eight-channel, eight-chip, eight-club, eight-coloured, eight-count, eight-country, eight-county, eight-course, eight-court, eight-cubic-foot, eight-cutting, eight-cylinder, eight-day, eight-eight, eight-engined, eight-faceted, eight-feeder, eight-feet, eight-feet-deep, eight-fifteen, eight-fifty, eight-figure, eight-fingered, eight-five, eight-fold, eight-foot, eight-footer, eight-forty, eight-forty-five, eight-frame, eight-furrow, eight-game, eight-generation, Eight-gigacube, eight-girl, eight-goal, eight-gun, eight-headed, eight-horse, eight-hour, eight-hour day, eight-hundred-mile, eight-inch, eight-inch-diameter, eight-inches, eight-inch-long, eight-in-one-tool, eight-iron, eight-ish, eight-kilometre, eight-knot, eight-lane, eight-lap, eight-legged, eight-length, eight-letter, eight-light, eight-lozenge, eight-man, eight-match, eight-member, eight-metre, eight-mile, eight-mile-long, eight-millimetre, eight-minute, eight-month, eight-month-long, eight-month-old, eight-month-olds, eight-months, eight-months-old, eight-nation, eight-night, eight-nine, eight-node, eight-officer, eight-one, eight-order, eight-over-par, eight-pack, eight-page, eight-pager, eight-pan, eight-panel, eight-part, eight-partner, eight-party, Eight-peaks, eight-people, eight-petalled, eight-phase, eight-piece, eight-pint, eight-place, eight-plane, eight-point, eight-pointed, eight-pointed-compass, eight-points, eight-port, eight-pound, eight-pounder, eight-pounders, eight-processor, eight-quid-a-bottle, eight-rider, eight-rink, eight-roomed, eight-rounds, eight-row, eight-seater, eight-session, eight-sided, eight-slot, eight-slotted, eight-span, eight-spot, eight-square-kilometre, eight-square-mile, eight-state, eight-stone, eight-storey, eight-strand, eight-stranded, eight-string, eight-stroke, eight-strong, eight-team, eight-ten, eight-tenths, eight-term, eight-test, eight-thirty, eight-three, eight-time, eight-time-a-year, eight-times, eight-times-married, eight-to, eight-to-eight, eight-to-four, eight-ton, eight-tonne, eight-track, eight-try, eight-twenty, eight-under, eight-under-par, eight-user, eight-valve, eight-vehicle, eight-volume, eight-way, eight-way-scrolling, eight-week, eight-week-long, eight-week-old, eight-wheel, eight-wheeled, eight-wicket, eight-wickets, eight-wing, eight-wire, eight-yard-high, eight-year, eight-year old, eight-year-ban, eight-year-campaign, eight-year-daughter, eight-year-old, eight-year-olds, eight-years, eight-years-old.

Ending with "eight": thirty-eight, twenty-eight.

Containing "eight": thirty-eight-year-old, twenty-eight-year-old.

Afrikaans

ag (account, accredit, acuity, advertence, advertency, ah, attention, believe, consider, deem, esteem, look, oh, opine, ow, regard, think, think well of, view, watch, woe). (various references)

Albanian

tetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوم العمل, ‏ثمانية, ‏ثماني الأعضاء. (various references)

Asturian

ocho. (various references)

Aymara

quimsaqallqo. (various references)

Basque

zortzi. (various references)

Bavarian

achdde. (various references)

Bemba

cinekonsekonse. (various references)

Blackfoot

náánisoyi. (various references)

Breton

eizh. (various references)

Bulgarian 

осморка (loop), осем. (various references)

Catalan

vuit. (various references)

Cebuano

walo. (various references)

Chamorro

ocho. (various references)

Chinese 

八 (8). (various references)

Cornish

éth. (various references)

Croatian

osam. (various references)

Czech

osm. (various references)

Danish

otte. (various references)

Dutch

acht (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

pusac. (various references)

Esperanto

ok. (various references)

Estonian

kaheksa. (various references)

Faeroese

átta. (various references)

Farsi 

عددهشت . (various references)

Finnish

kahdeksan. (various references)

Flemish

acht. (various references)

French

huit. (various references)

French Canadian

huit. (various references)

Frisian

acht. (various references)

Galician

oito. (various references)

German

acht (exile, heed, number of eight, outlawry, proscription). (various references)

Greek 

οκτώ. (various references)

Guarani

ocho. (various references)

Haitian Creole

uitè, uit. (various references)

Hawaiian

tetë. (various references)

Hebrew 

שמו� �". (various references)

Hungarian

nyolc, nyolcas (figure-of-eight, octet, octette). (various references)

Icelandic

átta. (various references)

Indonesian

delapan. (various references)

Inuktitut

ait. (various references)

Irish

ocht. (various references)

Italian

otto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

八本 , 八つ , 八 , エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やつ (chap, fellow, guy), やっつ, や (arrow, melting, question mark, valley), エイト , はっぽ�", はちほ�", はち (a basin, a bowl, a brainpan, a crown, a flowerpot, a pot, bee). (various references)

Kongo

nana. (various references)

Korean 

여덟. (various references)

Lombard

vott. (various references)

Luganda

munaana. (various references)

Luxembourgish

aacht. (various references)

Macedonian

osum. (various references)

Malagasy

valo. (various references)

Malay

delapan. (various references)

Manx

hoght (octuple). (various references)

Maori

waru. (various references)

Maya

waxak. (various references)

Mohawk

sha'tekon. (various references)

Norwegian

åtte. (various references)

Occitan

uèch. (various references)

Papago

gigi'ik. (various references)

Papiamen

ocho. (various references)

Pidgin English

eight. (various references)

Pig Latin

eightay.(various references)

Polish

osiem. (various references)

Portuguese

oito (stopper). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

oito. (various references)

Provencal

uèch. (various references)

Quechua

pusaq. (various references)

Romanian

opt. (various references)

Romansch

otgavel, otg. (various references)

Romany

ohtò. (various references)

Ruanda

imunani. (various references)

Russian 

восемь. (various references)

Samoan

valu. (various references)

Scottish

ochd (num. eight). (various references)

Sepedi

seswai. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osmica, osam. (various references)

Shona

tsere. (various references)

Sicilian

ottu. (various references)

Slovene

osmi, osem. (various references)

Somali

siddeed. (various references)

Sotho

robedi, borobedi. (various references)

Spanish

ocho. (various references)

Sranan

ayti. (various references)

Swahili

nane. (various references)

Swazi

-siphóhlôngo. (various references)

Swedish

åtta. (various references)

Tagalog

otso. (various references)

Tahitian

va'u. (various references)

Thai

เลขแป�". (various references)

Tswana

robedi, borobedi. (various references)

Turkish

sekiz (octa-, octo-). (various references)

Turkmen 

sekiz. (various references)

Ukrainian

вісім. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tám. (various references)

Welsh

wyth. (various references)

Wolof

juróom-ñetti, juróom-ñett-fukk, juróom-ñett, juróom-ñeet. (various references)

Xhosa

lesibhozo, isibhozo, anesibhozo. (various references)

Zulu

isishiyagalombili. (various references)

ussu. (various references)

ashta. (various references)

eahte. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "eight": eightball, eightballs, eighteen, eighteens, eighteenth, eighteenths, eightfold, eighth, eighthly, eighths, eighties, eightieth, eightieths, eights, eightvo, eightvos, eighty. (additional references)

Words ending with "eight": airfreight, bantamweight, counterweight, cruiserweight, deadweight, featherweight, flyweight, freight, heavyweight, height, hundredweight, lightweight, makeweight, middleweight, overweight, paperweight, pennyweight, sleight, superheavyweight, ultralightweight, underweight, unweight, weight, welterweight. (additional references)

Words containing "eight": airfreighted, airfreighting, airfreights, bantamweights, counterweighted, counterweighting, counterweights, cruiserweights, deadweights, featherweights, flyweights, freightage, freightages, freighted, freighter, freighters, freighting, freights, heavyweights, heighten, heightened, heightening, heightens, heighth, heighths, heights, hundredweights, lightweights, makeweights, middleweights, overweighted, overweighting, overweights, paperweights, pennyweights, sleights, superheavyweights, underweights, unweighted, unweighting, unweights, weighted, weighter, weighters, weightier, weightiest, weightily, weightiness, weightinesses, weighting, weightless. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Eight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aagghh, deight, dight, eagth, Efgh, egh, egit, eif, eig, eighe, eighte, eigits, eigth, eit, eitb, eite, Engh, Eugh, ewite, eygpts, eyt, feight, ight, leight, neight, peight, reight, teight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eth, get, ghi, gie, git, het, hie, hit, teg, the, tie.

-3 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: eighth, eights, eighty, height, hogtie, weight.

+2 letters: bedight, bighted, delight, dighted, eighths, eightvo, etching, fighter, freight, gahnite, girthed, gothite, heating, hefting, heighth, heights, henting, highest, highted, hogtied, hogties, hygeist, lighted, lighten, lighter, megahit, nighest, nightie, refight, relight, resight, righted, righter, sighted, sighter, sleight, theming, thighed, tighten, tighter, toughie, weights, weighty.

+3 letters: alighted, atheling, bedights, beknight, berthing, blighted, blighter, brighten, brighter, cheating, chigetai, delights, earthing, eighteen, eighthly, eighties, eightvos, etchings, eyesight, fetching, fighters, flighted, freights, frighted, frighten, gahnites, ghostier, gilthead, glitches, gnathite, goethite, gothites, graphite, gushiest, hearting, hedgiest, heighten, heighths, heisting, heritage, histogen, hygeists, hygieist, ingather, knighted, letching, lightens, lighters, lightest, litharge, megahits, megalith, mightier, naething, nighties, outweigh, penlight, plighted, plighter, prefight, refights, regolith, relights, resights, retching, righters, rightest, righties, seething, sennight, sheeting, sighters, sightsee, sleights, slighted, slighter, teaching, teething, teiglach, theurgic, thieving, thirlage, tigerish, tightens, tightest, toughies, unweight, weighted, weighter, whetting.