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literature | eight |

As nouns the difference between literature and eight

is that literature is the body of all written works while eight is the digit/figure 8 or eight can be an island in a river; an ait.

As a numeral eight is

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

literature

English

(wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)

Alternative forms

* literatuer (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The body of all written works.
  • The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
  • All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
  • *
  • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
  • Written fiction of a high standard.
  • However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

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    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)