eighth

Pluraleighths

Formseighths, eighthing, eighthed

1. 1
   adjective

   Coming after the seventh and before the ninth, the number eight in an order.

   She finished in eighth place in the race.

   We sat in the eighth row at the concert.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   One part of something split into eight equal pieces.

   Like one slice when a pizza is cut into eight equal pieces.

   Cut the pizza so that everyone gets an eighth.

   Each child received an eighth of the cake.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   The one that comes number eight in a group or order.

   She was the eighth to arrive at the party.

   Our team came in as the eighth in the league.

4. 4
   nounslangcountable

   About three and a half grams of marijuana or another drug.

   He bought an eighth from a friend at the party.

   An eighth lasts her about two weeks.

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   In music, the distance between two notes when one note is twice as high in pitch as the other.

   The boy and his father sang the tune an eighth apart, one voice high and one low.

   She played a low C on the piano, then the C an eighth above it.

   Similaroctave

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6. 6
   verbtransitive

   To split something into eight equal parts.

   We had to eighth the script before we could plan the shooting days.

   Before filming starts, the crew will eighth every page of the script.

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