eighth
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Систем
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Cardinal: eight Ordinal: eighth Multiplier: octuple, eightfold Distributive: octuply |
Alternative forms
Етимологија
Од Средњи Енглески eiȝtthe, од Стари Енглески eahtoþa, од Пра-Германски *ahtudô.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ātth, МФА(кључ): /eɪtθ/
- (General American) enPR: ātth, āth, МФА(кључ): /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/
Audio (US): (file)
- Риме: -eɪtθ, -eɪθ
Adjective
eighth (not comparable)
Synonyms
Translations
ordinal form of the number eight — See also translations at 8th
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Noun
eighth (plural eighths)
- The person or thing in the eighth position.
- One of eight equal parts of a whole.
- (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
- 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, Penguin Books (2001), page 499:
- At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.
Synonyms
- (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
- (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)
Coordinate terms
- (One of eight equal parts): epogdoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1 1⁄8)
Translations
person or thing in the eighth position
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one of eight equal parts of a whole
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slang: a quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce
Verb
eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)
- to divide by eight
- 2013 Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking page 31
- The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.
- 2013 Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking page 31