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US
/ˈθɝd/
]
[ UK /θˈɜːd/ ]
[ UK /θˈɜːd/ ]
NOUN
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the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
you shouldn't try to start in third gear -
the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
a simple harmony written in major thirds -
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
he is playing third -
following the second position in an ordering or series
he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment
a distant third -
the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
he was cut down on a close play at third -
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement
ADVERB
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in the third place
third we must consider unemployment
ADJECTIVE
- coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
How To Use third In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
- I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
- Pulling one back with another penalty - this time converted by the regular taker - they finally conceded a third. The Sun
- Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- Two-thirds of the women interviewed think about food a lot or all of the time.
- The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- Martin did well to recover from the onslaught to go a break up in the third set.