third
IPA: θˈɝd
noun
- The person or thing in the third position.
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- (baseball) third base
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
verb
- (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.
adjective
- The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
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Examples of "third" in Sentences
- The third day is the last day on the ranch.
- The master blesses the first two and curses the third.
- The last sentence of the third paragraph is unfinished.
- The most pertinent problems are the first and the third.
- It was the first refinery in Asia and the third in world.
- The first is much the strongest, and the third is sometimes wanting.
- It was the third and last appearance of a pentathlon at the Olympics.
- The first goal, in the third minute, was the first goal in the season.
- The last third of the book discusses the portrayal of cannibalism in film.
- The last or the third type of demarketing is called the ostensible demarketing.
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