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Third

adjective

Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position. Synonyms: 3rd, tertiary.

noun

One of three equal parts of a divisible whole. Synonyms: one-third, tierce.

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). Synonym: third base.

Following the second position in an ordering or series. "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.

The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle. Synonym: third gear.

The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball. Synonym: third base.

adverb

In the third place. Synonym: thirdly.

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"Third" Quotes from Famous Books

... aggregating fifty thousand men, the most formidable army yet seen in the new world. The plan of campaign embraced three expeditions: the first against Louisburg, in the island of Cape Breton, which was successful; the second against Ticonderoga, which succeeded after a defeat; and the third against Fort Duquesne. General Forbes, born at Dunfermline (whence have come others to Pittsburgh), commanded this expedition, comprising about seven thousand men. The militia from Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland was led by Washington, whose independent spirit led the testy Scotchman, ...

— A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church

... were lettered on the canvas of the tents in characters far more grotesque than elegant One was called the "Crystal Palace;" another, the "Mammoth Cave;" a third bore the mystical title of "Owl House;" while a fourth displayed the sign of the ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... new ones there were. Privately, I understood the complaint only too well, for I knew the fowls in question very intimately. Two of them were the runaway rooster and the gadabout hen that never wanted to go to bed with the others. The third was Cannibal Ann. I should have expected them to be tough, but I cannot believe they were ...

— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... "The third step, more arduous still than either or both the others, was that which we, fellow-citizens, may now congratulate ourselves, our country, and the world of man, that it is taken. It is the adaptation ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

... woman is justified in accepting a man for whom she only feels liking and respect, provided she has been quite frank with him, and he is content to have it so. If a man has the fidelity and pertinacity to ask a woman a second or third time he may find that the intervening years have worked in his favour; but no woman should say Yes merely because she is ...

— The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage • G. R. M. Devereux

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