eight

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 数词 num.
中文释义
英 /eɪt/    美 /eɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The digit/figure 8.
  2. Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river) alt-of,alternative
  3. Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  4. A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
  5. A race in which such craft participate. especially,plural
  6. The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
  7. Eight o'clock.
    — About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]
形容词 adj.
  1. Obsolete spelling of eighth. alt-of,not-comparable,obsolete
数词 num.
  1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
    — 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.
  2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.
    — He works eight hours a day.

词形变化

aught alternative eights plural aught alternative aught alternative eights plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aces and eights big eight crazy eight crazy eights Cuban eight Eight Ash Green eight-ball eight ball eight-bar blues eight-day clock eighteen eight figures eight-hooter eightish eight-jewel eight-legged essay eightlike eight-lined keelback eightling eight-masted eightness eight-oar eight o'clock eight-pack eight pack eight-pager eightpence eightpenny eight-penny nail eight penny nail eightplex eight-precious eights and aces eightscore eightsies eightsman eight-spotted flea beetle eight-thousander eight-top eight-treasure eighty eighty-eight feel eight feet tall figure-eight figure eight figure-eight hitch figure of eight figure-of-eight grade eight last eight lazy eight middle eight number eight one over the eight piece of eight standing eight straight-eight straight eight twenty-five-eight two and eight
相关词
eighth Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages section 8

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*oḱtṓw
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
Proto-Germanic *ahtōu
Proto-West Germanic *ahtō
Old English eahta
Middle English eighte
English eight
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).
词源 2
See ait.
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