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# eighth

«eighth» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 8 in order, after the seventh** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number, adjective and noun (eighth, an eighth, eighths); adverb (eighth)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Eighth means number 8 in order, after the seventh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#m1)

2) An eighth is one of eight equal parts of something: 1/8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, an eighth is a fraction: a pizza cut into 8 equal slices gives eighths; 1/8 = 0.125 = 12.5%; two eighths equal one quarter; eight eighths make one whole. In everyday life eighth tells order: the eighth floor, the eighth birthday, came eighth in a race. In music an eighth note (US) is a quaver (UK). Phrases: «the eighth of», «one eighth», «three eighths», «eighth place».

### examples

- My sister is having her eighth birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x1)
- We live on the eighth floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x2)
- Cut the cake into eighths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x3)
- One eighth of 40 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x4)
- Three eighths of the class walk to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x5)
- He finished eighth in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x6)
- August is the eighth month of the year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x7)
- Two eighths equal one quarter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x8)
- So on the eighth day, at five minutes before noon, Nigel got ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/#x9)

### note

Tricky spelling: eight + h = e-i-g-h-t-h (only one t). Ordinal: 8th. Fraction 1/8 is said «one eighth». Maths: to find an eighth of a number, divide by 8; to find three eighths, divide by 8 then multiply by 3. A bigger bottom number means smaller pieces: 1/8 is smaller than 1/4.

### In the corpora

- [The Chinese character for the eighth animal can mean goat, sheep or ram, so both are right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/15/)
- [And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.211/)
- [And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.304/)
- [On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.308/)
- [On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no manner of servile work;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1073/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eighth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.