Eighth
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The person or thing in the eighth position.
- 2 one part in eight equal parts wordnet
- 3 One of eight equal parts of a whole.
"Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar."
- 4 position eight in a countable series of things wordnet
- 5 An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs. slang
"At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane."
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- 6 An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.
- 1 To divide by eight. transitive
"The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective."
- 1 The ordinal form of the number eight. not-comparable
"Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks."
- 1 coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position wordnet
Example
More examples"Neptune is the eighth planet of the solar system."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix).
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