8x8 rule in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "The x represents multiplication.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "8x8 rule",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Eight",
          "orig": "en:Eight",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The recommendation that a person should drink eight servings of eight ounces of water each day."
      ],
      "id": "en-8x8_rule-en-name-MzK9Xr3k",
      "links": [
        [
          "recommendation",
          "recommendation"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "serving",
          "serving"
        ],
        [
          "ounce",
          "ounce"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The recommendation that each slide in a presentation should contain a maximum of eight lines of text with a maximum of eight words in each line."
      ],
      "id": "en-8x8_rule-en-name-Q0Y5HH9X",
      "links": [
        [
          "recommendation",
          "recommendation"
        ],
        [
          "slide",
          "slide"
        ],
        [
          "presentation",
          "presentation"
        ],
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "8x8 rule"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms spelled with numbers",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Eight"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The x represents multiplication.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "8x8 rule",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The recommendation that a person should drink eight servings of eight ounces of water each day."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recommendation",
          "recommendation"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "serving",
          "serving"
        ],
        [
          "ounce",
          "ounce"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The recommendation that each slide in a presentation should contain a maximum of eight lines of text with a maximum of eight words in each line."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recommendation",
          "recommendation"
        ],
        [
          "slide",
          "slide"
        ],
        [
          "presentation",
          "presentation"
        ],
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "8x8 rule"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"8x8 rule" meaning in English

Proper name