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eight | eightish |

As nouns the difference between eight and eightish

is that eight is the digit/figure 8 or eight can be an island in a river; an ait while eightish is (colloquial) any time close to eight o'clock.

As a numeral eight

is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

eight

English

(wikipedia eight)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* * Western (Arabic) numerals: * (Roman numerals): VIII

Numeral

(head)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
  • He works eight hours a day.
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  • Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have '''eight''' children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘' eight ’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
  • Describing a set or group with eight components.
  • See also
    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The digit/figure 8.
  • (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  • (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which a eight rowers each have two oars
  • (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate
  • Derived terms
    * eight ball * eighty * figure eight * number eight * piece of eight
    See also
    * *

    Etymology 2

    See ait.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An island in a river; an ait.
  • * Evelyn
  • osiers on their eights
    (Webster 1913)

    eightish

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Any time close to eight o'clock.