eight Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
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* 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.
Related terms
* (l)
See also
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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
*
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Etymology 2
See ait.
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tau English
Noun
( en noun)
The name of the letter and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and [[Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek.
A -shaped sign or structure; a , sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.
* 1658': Nor shall we take in the mysticall '''''Tau'' , or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an ''Empedon'' or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
(label) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
(label) A type of protein used to stabilise microtubules.
* 1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 263:
- Quite what that job is remains obscure, but one theory is that it is to stabilise another protein called tau , which is supposed in turn to keep in shape the tubular ‘skeleton’ of a neuron.
A constant equal to twice the value of pi; often written .
Coordinate terms
* (Greek letter) Previous: sigma. Next: upsilon
Anagrams
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