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Eighth

Definitions: Eighth

Eighth

Adjective

1. Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position.

Noun

1. Position eight in a countable series of things.

2. An eighth part.

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Date "eighth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Eighth

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

EIGHTH, Henry the, suitor, blue beard, and church builder. When a young man he became a benedict, a condition in which he remained until well along in years. As fast as a queen appeared at the breakfast table with her hair down her back, she was dispatched to the block. A couple of queens got ahead of him. Was nearly as successful in obtaining divorces as Napoleon, of France, and American millionaires. In his later years he competed against the Pope in England. Ambition: A harem. Recreation: Spooning. Dreams: Bad. Address: Windsor. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Slang

Noun. Source: From the measurement. Definition: This implies simply one-eighth an ounce. Context: Used to describe the amount of pot. Social Source: Oregon College Marijuana Users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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Synonym: Eighth

Synonym: one-eighth (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Eighth

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Five

Adjective: five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duodenary, duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.

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Crosswords: Eighth

English words defined with "eighth": 7th9thAcetableBerit, Berith, beyond, break, Bris, Briss, BrithConsonancyDotted note, drachm, drachma, dramEarl marshal of England, eighth cranial nerve, Eighth note, EighthlyFloreal, fluid drachm, fluid dram, fluidramHeshvanIyar, IyyarKartikmajor scale, Masora, minor scaleninthOctave flute, Octennial, Octic, one-eighth, open framequaverScorpio, Scorpio the Scorpion, Scythia, seventh, Sha'banTrinity Sunday, TrioletUtas. (references)
Specialty definitions using "eighth": Abia, AttingiansBands, Bell, Book, and Candle, Bengodi, Byzantine/Rhodian Sea-LawCallirrhoe, Countess di CivillariDeputationsEmbryo LossHabakkukIconoclasts, IlluminationsMalebolge, Marcheshvan, Marriages, Menah, MerciaQuantas Empire Airways LtdUruguay RoundVeiled Prophet of KhorassanWoo-tee Dynasty. (references)
Etymologies containing "eighth": AcetableOctaemeron, October, OgdoastichUtas. (references)

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Modern Usage: Eighth

DomainUsage

Screenplays

He has a sixth, a seventh and an eighth. (Where Eagles Dare; writing credit: Alistair MacLean;)

I am one eighth the Ule Time , Know what i mean? (Ernest Saves Christmas; writing credit: B. Kline)

Yes, I was a bitchy eighth grader for that whole week, actually! (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont)

Evil! Pure and simple from the eighth dimension! (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; writing credit: Earl Mac Rauch)

If I had to do it all over again, I'd have started advanced placement classes in preschool so I could go from eighth grade straight to college. (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

Lyrics

As Kevin reached his eighth year, he was the same as the was when he was four. ("Mephisto and Kevin"; performing artist: Primus)

Movie/TV Titles

The Eighth Day (1967)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Oliver the Eighth (1934)

King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Eighth Wife (1923)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1923)

Song Titles

I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

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Commercial Usage: Eighth

DomainTitle

Books

  • Quantitative Analysis for Management and Student CD-ROM, Eighth Edition (reference)

  • The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (reference)

  • The Eighth Day (reference)

  • The Mighty Eighth (reference)

  • The Mighty Eighth War Manual (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Eighth

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Photo Album: Eighth

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In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift-wrapped Saturn in ...Credit: NASA.

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Sounds Captioned with "Eighth".

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Snare and bass playing in even eighth notes.
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Historic Usage: Eighth

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Eighth.The standard set by law in each country with respect to the conditions of labour should have due regard to the equitable economic treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Eighth

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Somebody measures it, and finds one of the proportions an eighth of an inch wrong.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He was in the eighth corps, of the Grand Army which Mortier commanded, and which took Hamburg.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Eighth

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

NF2 is characterized by bilateral (occurring on both sides of the body) tumors on the eighth cranial nerve. (references)

One of the more common forms of schwannoma affects the eighth cranial nerve, which contains nerve cells important for balance and hearing. (references)

Scientists now know that the tumors typically occur on the vestibular nerve, another branch of the eighth cranial nerve near the auditory nerve. (references)

Business

In 1999, U.S. pharmaceutical exporters held the eighth position, after companies from France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, Netherlands, Japan and Denmark. (references)

The eighth Kazakhstan International Healthcare Exhibition (KIHE 2001) was held at the Atakent International Exhibition Center (a tax free zone), May 11-14, 2001, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (references)

To provide sufficient power during the Eighth Plan alone, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) had planned to spend approximately US$10 billion on new generating capacity. (references)

Children

Turkey

Government-provided education through the age of 14 or the eighth grade is compulsory. (references)

Albania

School attendance is mandatory through the eighth grade (or until age 18, whichever comes first). (references)

Chile

The Government provides free education through high school; education is compulsory from first through eighth grade. (references)

Economic History

The Netherlands

Between the fourth and eighth centuries A.D., most of both portions were conquered by the Franks. (references)

Sri Lanka

The United States remained the eighth largest supplier to Sri Lanka with a 3.5 percent market share. (references)

Pakistan

Pakistan's 610,000-member armed forces, the world's eighth largest, are well trained and disciplined. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

Seven suspects were detained at year's end and an eighth suspect was a fugitive as the investigation continued. (references)

Kenya

The life of an eighth suspected criminal, a GSU policeman, reportedly was spared following pleas from his pregnant wife; however, police arrested and reportedly beat him. (references)

Dominican Republic

An investigative judge in the Eighth Penal Court, who was assigned to investigate the case in the civilian courts, ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction over a police matter. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

In July Secretary of Education and Vice President Milagros Ortiz-Bosch announced that all children would be allowed to enroll in school through the eighth grade, whether or not they had a birth certificate. (references)

Poland

In June the Philadanco dance troupe, which was touring the country as part of the Eighth Annual International Dance Conference and Festival in Warsaw, Poznan, and Bytom, reported that in Bytom, some of the dancers were called "monkeys" and "animal" in English and had objects thrown at them. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

Likud Knesset member Moshe Katsav was elected as Israel's eighth President at the end of July, 2000, replacing Ezer Weizman. (references)

Women

Tajikistan

In rural areas, women tend to marry younger, have larger families, and receive less university education than women in cities do. In rural and traditional areas, women receive less education in general, often leaving school after the eighth year. (references)

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Speeches: Eighth

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Eighth, we must strengthen the ability of free nations everywhere to develop their independence and raise their standard of living, and thereby frustrate those who prey on poverty and chaos.

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Usage Frequency: Eighth

"Eighth" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eighth" is used about 1,277 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Ordinal Number100%1,2776,170

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Derived & Related Names: Eighth

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "eighth".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
SheminithN/ABiblical

Eighth (an eight-stringed instrument)

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Expressions: Eighth

Expressions using "eighth": eighth cranial nerve Eighth note eighth part. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "eighth": eighth-century, eighth-finals, eighth-magnitude, eighth-minute, eighth-ninth, eighth-notes, eighth-of-an-inch, eighth-of-a-page, eighth-round, eighth-tone, eighth-wicket.

Ending with "eighth": eighty-eighth, five-eighth, mid-eighth, one-eighth, thirty-eighth, twenty-eighth.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eighth

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eighth latinas street

49

henry the eighth

42

eighth circuit court of appeal

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eighth amendment

24

eighth air force

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eighth grade math

19

eighth

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eighth army

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king henry eighth

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circuit eighth

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Modern Translations: Eighth

Language Translations for "eighth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

agste (eighth part). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

një e tetë, i tetë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الثامن, ‏ثمن جزء من ثمانية, ‏ثمن (charge, cost, damage, esteem, estimate, price, revalue, value). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

осми. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

oktabu. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

第八 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

osmina, osmý, osmé. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ottende. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

achtste (eighth part). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

okono (eighth part), oka (eighth hour). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kahdeksas. (various references)

   

French

  

huitième. (various references)

   

German

  

achte (eighthes, eighths), achtel (quaver). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όγδοοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שמי ית, שמי י. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyolcadik, nyolcad (octa-, octave). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ottavo. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(8th in rank, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar), 葉月 (eighth month of lunar calendar), (eighth sign of Chinese zodiac, not yet), 八日 (eight days, the eighth), 八十八夜 (eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し" (8th in rank, Buddhist sect originating in the thirteenth century, confidence, core, devotion, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar, faith, fidelity, genuineness, heart, marrow, new, reality, reliance, sincerity, trust, truth, wick), ひつじ (eighth sign of Chinese zodiac, sheep), かのと (8th in rank, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar), ようか (adoptive family, eight days, iodization, melting, pupation, smelting, the eighth), はづき (eighth month of lunar calendar), はちじゅうはちや (eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

8번째. (various references)

   

Manx

  

hoghtoo. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

åttende. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eighthay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

ósmy. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

oitavo (eighth part). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

optime, al optulea, a opta parte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

восьмой. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ochdamh. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

boseswai. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

osmi. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

ottavu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

octavo. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

-a nane. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åttonde. (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

ikawaló. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sekizlik (sextain), sekizinci şey, sekizinci, sekizde birlik kısım. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sekizinji. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

восьма частина, восьмий, октава (octave, ottava). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vật thứ tám, thứ tám, một phần tám người thứ tám. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

wythfed. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Eighth

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

octavus. (various references)

Avestan200-600

ashtemem. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Eighth

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 7, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai edwken autw diaqhkhn peritomhV kai outwV egennhsen ton isaak kai perietemen auton th hmera th ogdoh kai o isaak ton iakwb kai o iakwb touV dwdeka patriarcaV
Latin405VulgateEt dedit illi testamentum circumcisionis et sic genuit Isaac et circumcidit eum die octava et Isaac Iacob et Iacob duodecim patriarchas
Middle English1395WyclifAnd he yaf to hym the testament of circumcisioun; and so he gendride Ysaac, and circumcidide hym in the eiyt dai. And Isaac gendride Jacob, and Jacob gendride the twelue patriarkis.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he gave him the covenaunt of circumcision. And he begat Isaac and circumcised him the viii. daye and Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob the twelve patriarkes
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

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Matched Bible Translations: Eighth

LanguageActs Chapter 7, Verse 8
AlbanianPastaj i dha atij besëlidhjen e rrethprerjes. Dhe kështu Abrahamit i lindi Isaku dhe e rrethpreu të tetën ditë; Isakut i lindi Jakobi, dhe Jakobit dymbëdhjetë patriarkë.
BulgarianНо аз, рече Бог, ще съдя народа, на който ще робуват: и подир това ще излязат и ще ми служат на това място.
CebuanoUg kaniya siya naghimog pakigsaad mahitungod sa pagsirkunsisyon. Ug si Abraham nanganak kang Isaac ug kini iyang gisirkunsidahan sa ikawalo ka adlaw; ug si Isaac nanganak kang Jacob, ug si Jacob nanganak sa napulog-duha ka patriarca.
Chinese  神 又 賜 他 割 禮 的 約 . 於 是 亞 伯 拉 罕 " 了 以 '' 、 第 八 日 姶 他 行 了 割 禮 . 以 '' " 雅 各 、 雅 各 " 十 二 位 先 祖 。
CroatianDade mu i Savez obrezanja. Tako rodi Izaka i obreza ga osmi dan, Izak Jakova, Jakov dvanaest rodozaèetnika."
DanishOg han gav ham Omskærelsens Pagt. Og så avlede han Isak og omskar ham den ottende Dag, og Isak avlede Jakob, og Jakob de tolv Patriarker.
DutchEn Hij gaf hem het verbond der besnijdenis; en alzo gewon hij Izak, en besneed hem op den achtsten dag; en Izak gewon Jakob, en Jakob de twaalf patriarchen.
FinnishJa hän antoi hänelle ympärileikkauksen liiton; ja niin Aabrahamille syntyi Iisak, ja hän ympärileikkasi hänet kahdeksantena päivänä, ja Iisakille syntyi Jaakob, ja Jaakobille ne kaksitoista kantaisää.
FrenchPuis Dieu donna Abraham l`alliance de la circoncision; et ainsi, Abraham, ayant engendré Isaac, le circoncit le huitième jour; Isaac engendra et circoncit Jacob, et Jacob les douze patriarches.
GermanUnd gab ihm den Bund der Beschneidung. Und er zeugte Isaak und beschnitt ihn am achten Tage, und Isaak den Jakob, und Jakob die zwölf Erzväter.
Haitian CreoleApre sa, Bondye pase yon kontra ak Abraram, li ba li sikonsizyon an pou sèvi mak kontra a. Se konsa Abraram te sikonsi Izarak, pitit gason l' lan, wit jou apre l' te fèt. Menm jan an tou, Izarak te sikonsi Jakòb, pitit li a. Jakòb menm sikonsi douz pitit li yo, zansèt douz branch fanmi pèp Izrayèl la.
HungarianÉs adta néki a körülmetélés szövetségét: és így nemzé Izsákot, és körülmetélé õt nyolczadnapon; és Izsák Jákóbot, és Jákób a tizenkét pátriárkhát.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSesudah berkata begitu ikatan janji itu disahkan oleh Allah dengan upacara sunat. Maka sesudah Ishak, anak Abraham lahir, Abraham menyunat dia pada waktu ia berumur delapan hari. Kemudian Ishak menyunat juga anaknya, yaitu Yakub. Dan Yakub pun menyunat pula kedua belas anaknya, yaitu yang menjadi bapak-bapak leluhur bangsa Yahudi.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaLalu dikaruniakan-Nya kepadanya Perjanjian persunatan; maka demikianlah Ibrahim telah memperanakkan Ishak, lalu menyunatkan dia pada hari yang kedelapannya, dan Ishak memperanakkan Yakub, dan Yakub memperanakkan kedua belas nenek moyang ini.
ItalianE gli diede l'alleanza della circoncisione. E così Abramo generò Isacco e lo circoncise l'ottavo giorno e Isacco generò Giacobbe e Giacobbe i dodici patriarchi.
Korean 례 의 언 약 을 아 브 라 함 에 게 주 셨 " 니 그 가 이 삭 을 낳 아 여 " 만 에 례 를 행 하 이 삭 이 야 곱 을, 야 곱 이 우 리 열 두 조 상 을 낳 으 니
LatvianUn Viòð tam deva apgraizîðanas derîbu; un viòð dzemdinâja Îzâku un to apgraizîja astotajâ dienâ; un Îzâks - Jçkabu un Jçkabs - divpadsmit ciltstçvus;
MaoriA i homai ano e ia ki a ia te kawenata o te kotinga: a whanau ake ta Aperahama ko Ihaka, a i te waru o nga ra ka kotia; a na Ihaka ko Hakopa; na Hakopa hoki nga tupuna kotahi tekau ma rua.
Modern GreekΚαι εδωκεν εις αυτον διαθηκην περιτομης· και ουτως εγεννησε τον Ισαακ και περιετεμεν αυτον τη ογδοη ημερα, και ο Ισαακ εγεννησε τον Ιακωβ, και ο Ιακωβ τους δωδεκα πατριαρχας.
NorwegianOg han gav ham omskjærelsens pakt; og så fikk han sønnen Isak, og omskar ham på den åttende dag, og Isak fikk sønnen Jakob, og Jakob blev far til de tolv patriarker.
PortugueseE deu-lhe o pacto da circuncisão; assim então gerou Abraão a Isaque, e o circuncidou ao oitavo dia; e Isaque gerou a Jacó, e Jacó aos doze patriarcas.   
RumanianApoi i -a dat legqmkntul tqierii kmprejur; wi astfel Avraam, cknd a nqscut pe Isaac, l -a tqiat kmprejur kn ziua a opta; Isaac a nqscut wi a tqiat kmprejur pe Iacov, wi Iacov pe cei doisprezece patriarhi.
ShuarYus tuke Apraámnasha chicharuk `Yamaikia Wíi-shuar asarum tsupirnaktiniaitrume. Tuma asam amesha uchiram aishmankach akiiniamtai, Wi Tímiajna Núnismek, Sirkunsisiún tutai, shunichiri nuape tsupirkata, Tímiayi. Tura Chícham Wi yamaikia ámijiai najanaj nu nekas uminkatniuiti tusam nusha Túrata" Tímiayi Yus. Tuma asamtai ni Uchirí Isak akiiniamtai, uchu tsawant nankaamasmatai, Apraám niin tsupirkamiayi. Tura Isaksha ukunam ni tuse (12) uchirin ii uuntri armia nunasha Nútiksan Túramiayi.
SpanishDios le dio el pacto de la circuncisión; y así Abraham engendró a Isaac y le circuncidó al octavo día. Lo mismo hizo Isaac a Jacob, y Jacob a los doce patriarcas.
SwahiliHalafu Mungu aliifanya tohara iwe ishara ya agano. Hivyo, Abrahamu alimtahiri mtoto wake Isaka, siku ya nane baada ya kuzaliwa. Na Isaka, vivyo hivyo, alimtahiri Yakobo. Naye Yakobo aliwatendea wale mababu kumi na wawili vivyo hivyo.
SwedishOch han upprättade ett omskärelsens förbund med honom. Och så födde han Isak och omskar honom på åttonde dagen, och Isak födde Jakob, och Jakob födde våra tolv stamfäder.
Thaiพระองค์ไ"้ทรงตั้งพันธสัญญาพิธีเข้าสุหนัตไว้กับอับราฮัม เหตุฉะนั้นเมื่ออับราฮัมให้กำเนิ"บุตรชื่ออิสอัค จึงให้เข้าสุหนัตในวันที่แป" อิสอัคให้กำเนิ"บุตรชื่อยาโคบ และยาโคบให้กำเนิ"บุตรสิบสองคน ซึ่งเป็นบรรพบุรุษของเรา
UkrainianІ дав 'ін йому заповіта обрізання. І породив так Ісака, і восьмого дня він обрізав його. А Ісак породив Якова, а Яків дванадцятьох патріярхів.
UmaOti toe, Alata'ala mpobabehi pojanci posidaia' -na hante Abraham, pai' nahubui bona Abraham pai' hawe'ea muli-na ratini'. Ada petini' toe jadi' tanda pojanci-na Alata'ala hante muli Abraham. Jadi', putu mpu'u-mi ana' Abraham to rahanga' Ishak, natini' -imi hi eo kawalu-na. Oti toe wo'o-hawo, Ishak mpotini' Yakub ana' -na. Pai' Yakub mpotini' ana' -na to hampulu' rodua. Pai' hira' toe-mi to jadi' ntu'a-ta kita' to Yahudi.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Eighth

Derivations

Words beginning with "eighth": eighthly, eighths. (additional references)

Words ending with "eighth": heighth. (additional references)

Words containing "eighth": heighths. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Eighth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aagghh, Aagghhh, aggghh, Aith, eagth, eateth, eehh, Egeth, eghth, eighte, eightth, eigth, Eithy, epith, heighth, peight, rightho, Ugghhh. (additional references)

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Rhyming with "Eighth"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "eighth" (pronounced ā"tth or ā"th)
2ā" thfaith, interfaith.

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Anagrams: Eighth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: height.

Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-t"

-1 letter: eight, heigh, hight, thigh.

-2 letters: heth, high.

-3 letters: eth, get, ghi, gie, git, heh, het, hie, hit, teg, the, tie.

-4 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-i-t"
 

+1 letter: eighths, heighth, heights, highest, highted, thighed.

 

+2 letters: eighthly, heighten, heighths.

 

+3 letters: eightieth, haughtier, headlight, heightens, sheathing, thighbone, threshing.

 

+4 letters: earthlight, eighteenth, eightieths, hatcheling, haughtiest, headlights, heightened, hightailed, lighthouse, nightshade, sheathings, thighbones.

 

+5 letters: earthlights, eighteenths, ensheathing, hatchelling, haughtiness, headhunting, heavyweight, heightening, highlighted, highlighter, houselights, hyphenating, insheathing, lightheaded, lighthouses, lightweight, nightshades, searchlight, unsheathing, wheelwright.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Eighth


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 69 67 68 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ..    --.    ....    -    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0069 0067 0068 0074 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

397573748674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

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