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8TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position
Synonyms:
8th; eighth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor’s with a small party; Lanyon had been there; and the face of the host had looked from one to the other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They are endorsed outside, as you see, ‘Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N. lat. 15º 20’, W. long. 25º 14’ on Nov. 6th.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I was racking my brain as to how I should best describe it, my eyes fell upon the issue of my own Journal for the morning of the 8th of November with the full and excellent account of my friend and fellow-reporter Macdona.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The double bond at the 6th carbon is in the cis formation and the double bond at the 8th carbon is in the trans formation.
(Conjugated Linoleic Acid n-6, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
