third

Meanings

Plural: thirds

Noun

• one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
  • "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
• 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
  • "a distant third"
  • "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"
• the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
  • "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
• 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 base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
  • "he was cut down on a close play at third"
• The person or thing in the third position.
• One of three equal parts of a whole.
• The third gear of a gearbox.
• An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
• third base
• 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.

Adjective Satellite

• coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

Adverb

• in the third place
  • "third we must consider unemployment"

Adj

• The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

Verb

• To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
• To divide into three equal parts.

Synonyms

3d, 3rd, III, IIIrd, one-third, tertiary, third base, third gear, third part, thirdly, tierce, ⅓

Related Words

interval, major third, minor third, riding, third gear, third person

Anagrams of third