Rancid vs Eight - What's the difference?
rancid | eight |
Being rank in taste or smell.
offensive
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
* 2009 ,
Describing a set or group with eight components.
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
As an adjective rancid
is being rank in taste or smell.As a numeral eight is
(cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after seven and before nine.As a noun eight is
the digit/figure 8 or eight can be an island in a river; an ait.rancid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
- His remarks were rancid ; everyone got up and left.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.External links
* * *eight
English
(wikipedia eight)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* * Western (Arabic) numerals: * (Roman numerals): VIIINumeral
(head)- 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.
