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eight

/eyt/US // eɪt //UK // (eɪt) //

八,八个,八位

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, seven plus one.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 8 or VIII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things, as the crew of an eight-oared racing shell.
    • : a playing card the face of which bears eight pips.
    • : Informal. an automobile powered by an eight-cylinder engine.an eight-cylinder engine.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to eight in number.

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Examples

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

  • One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

  • If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

  • When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

  • After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

  • But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.

  • At six o'clock I felt once more the welcome motion of a Railroad car, and at eight was in Venice.

  • The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.