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Eighth vs Heighth - What's the difference?

eighth | heighth |

As nouns the difference between eighth and heighth

is that eighth is (eighth ones is used for the plural ) the person or thing in the eighth position while heighth is .

As an adjective eighth

is the ordinal form of the number eight.

eighth

English

Adjective

(head)
  • The ordinal form of the number eight.

    • Synonyms

    * , 8th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) VIII

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (eighth ones is used for the plural ) The person or thing in the eighth position.
  • One of eight equal parts of a whole.
  • (slang) An "eighth" of an ounce equalling approximately 3.5 grams in marijuana or other drugs.

    • Synonyms

    * (person or thing in the eighth position) eighth one * (One of eight equal parts) , henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)

    Anagrams

    * English ordinal numbers

    heighth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * highth * height

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1690 , Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=87224667&tag=Barbon,+Nicholas,+d.+1698:+A+Discourse+of+Trade,+1690&query=+heighth&id=BarDisc]:
    • In the Infancy of the World, Governments began with little Families and Colonies of Men; so that, when ever any Government arrived to greater Heighth than the rest, either by the great Wisdom or Courage of the Government, they afterwards grew a pace...
  • * 1700 , Colley Cibber, Richard III [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=167134294&tag=Cibber,+Colley:+Richard+III,+1700&query=+heighth&id=Cib3Ric]:
    • 'Why then to me this restless World's but Hell,
    Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head
    'Be circled in a glorious Diadem --
    But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth , O!...
  • * 1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 169)
    • The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).
  • * 1826 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=763111755&textreg=1&query=+heighth&id=eaf056v2]
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  • (US, proscribed)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1962 , year_published=2008 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Anthony Burgess , title=A Clockwork Orange , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Heinemann , isbn= , page=2 , passage=The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, ... }}

    References

    * WSU.EDU * [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hei1.htm]