What's the difference between bight and eight?

Bight


Definition:

  • (v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
  • (v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
  • (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
  • (2) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
  • (3) The British oil giant initially planned to drill four exploratory wells by 2017, with a further six wells by 2020, in an attempt to find what could be vast oil reserves in the Ceduna basin system that lies beneath the waters of the Great Australian Bight.
  • (4) BP, which plans to drill a series of exploratory wells in the Great Australian Bight marine park from next year, says it would take 35 days to cap a leaking well in a “worst credible case scenario”.
  • (5) Measurement of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (delta 13C and delta 15N) in samples of human bone collagen (n = 93) from a temporal series of four prehistoric (early preagricultural, late preagricultural, early agricultural, late agricultural) and two historic (early contact, late contact) periods from the Georgia Bight, a continental embayment on the southeastern U.S. Atlantic coast, reveals a general temporal trend for less negative delta 13C values and less positive delta 15N values.
  • (6) The New York Bight extends seaward some 80 to 100 miles (ca.
  • (7) The Wilderness Society’s Owen said: “The oil industry always says it has learned its lessons and then ‘bang’.” “The Great Australian Bight is one of the roughest, most remote places on the planet.
  • (8) Qualitative salmonella investigations and E. coli titre determinations were carried out in about 4,000 water samples taken from the coastal region of Kiel Bight (Western Baltic) in 1972 and 1973, and evaluated in connection with epidemiological data.
  • (9) resistant to 20 mug of mercury per ml were observed in Bight sediments contaminated by these wastes.
  • (10) The Great Australian Bight is quite remote; the industry isn’t as well established as the Gulf of Mexico.
  • (11) The histopathology of acute fin rot disease in summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, from the New York Bight is described.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mangroves losses (red) and surviving mangroves (green) around the shoreline and mouth of the Limmen Bight river.
  • (13) In the Great Australian Bight, BP plans to drill at depths of 2,200 metres, about 300km from its closest port.
  • (14) Meanwhile, defeated Britain would have seen its navy sunk in the Heligoland Bight, have been forced to cede its oil interests in the Middle East and the Gulf to Germany, and have been unable to contain Indian nationalism.
  • (15) A Senate inquiry will investigate BP’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight and examine how a spill could be dealt with.
  • (16) Of all the places to be turning into an oil field, the Great Australian Bight is not it.
  • (17) An oil spill from BP’s planned drilling in the Great Australian Bight could affect most of Australia’s southern coastline, shutting down fisheries and threatening wildlife including whales, seabirds and sea lions, new modelling has shown.
  • (18) BP oil spill in Great Australian Bight would be catastrophic, modelling shows Read more The Wilderness Society South Australia director, Peter Owen, said BP should wait until after the inquiry had reported in May before it submitted its new application.
  • (19) The Great Australian Bight is a breeding and feeding ground for a large array of species, including blue whales, southern right whales, great white sharks, sea lions and various seabirds.
  • (20) In water samples taken immediately above sandy sediments at beaches of the Kiel Fjord and the Kiel Bight (Baltic Sea, FRG), between 2.3 and 56.2% (average, 31.3%) of the total number of bacteria were actually metabolizing cells.

Eight


Definition:

  • (n.) An island in a river; an ait.
  • (a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.
  • (n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
  • (n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
  • (2) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (3) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
  • (4) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (5) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
  • (6) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (7) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
  • (8) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (9) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (10) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
  • (11) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
  • (12) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
  • (13) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
  • (14) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
  • (15) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
  • (16) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
  • (17) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
  • (18) In the subgroup of children under age 5 years at the time of diagnosis, 10 of 11 showed neuropsychologic deficits, and eight of 11 had white matter changes.
  • (19) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (20) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.