third
The person or thing in the third position.
Adjective
- The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- The third tree from the left is my favorite.
- The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…] - 2012 October 8, Daniel W....
- “Congress took the lead on putting the HBCU funding in those bills and passing them. The third COVID-19 bill, passed under President Biden, included as much funding for HBCUs as both of the first two Covid-19 bills...
Origin
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
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adult third culture kid at third hand Earth's third pole Newton's third law petty officer third class safe third country third-act breakup third age third angle projection third art third baseman third best thirdborn third camp third-campism third-campist third class third-class third-class citizen third-class entity third-class object third-class value third conditional third contact
Noun
- The person or thing in the third position.
- Jones came in third.
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist. - 2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is...
- Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a...
- Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- Now put it into third.
- An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- They sing in thirds.
- third base
- The play ended with Jones standing on third.
- A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system.
- […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome. - 1994, John David North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, page xxi:
Synonyms: tierce
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augmented third centre third diminished third goal third lower third neutral third one third one-third Picardy third rule of thirds two-thirds two thirds twothirds
Verb
- To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.