Third

Definition: Third

Third

Adjective

1. Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.

2. Being one of three equal parts; "a third share of the money".

Adverb

1. In the third place; "third we must consider unemployment".

Noun

1. One of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement".

2. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 3rd base; "he is playing third".

3. 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".

4. The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds".

5. 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".

6. The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "third" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Third \Third\ (th[~e]rd), adjective. [Old English thirde, Anglo-Saxon [thorn]ridda, from [thorn]r[=i], [thorn]re['o], three; akin to Dutch derde third, German dritte, Icelandic [thorn]ri[eth]i, Gothic [thorn]ridja, Latin tertius, Greek tri`tos, Sanskrit t[.r]t[=i]ya. See Three, and compare to Ridinga jurisd. (references)

Biographical Satire

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Synonyms: Third

Heaven

Olympus; Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian); Nirvana (Buddhist); happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" (Mohammedan).

Inquiry

Question, put to the question, interrogate, pump; subject to interrogation, subject to examination; cross-question, cross-examine; press for an answer; give the third degree; put to the inquisition; dodge.

Pleasure

Happiness, felicity, bliss; beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium; ( heaven); third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism.

Safety

Protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna, chaperon, third person.

Triality

Third power, cube; cube root.

Triplication

Noun: trisection, trichotomy; third, third part.

Adverb: three times, three fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly; trebly; Adjective:

Adjective: treble, triple; tern, ternary; triplicate, threefold, trilogistic; third; trinal, trine.

Crosswords: Third

Let me see if I've got this: The third story on the news tonight was that someone I didn't know 13 years ago, when I wasn't President, participated in a demonstration where no laws were being broken in protest of something that so many people were against it doesn't exist anymore (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

We have enough battery power to run a small third world country here (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Nobody's called me by it since third grade (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

I'm tall, dark and handsome, and you're third world ugly (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

Rounding third he was headed for home (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

It's the third hardest thing I'll ever do (Holding Her and Loving You; performing artist: Clay Walker)

It started way back in third grade (Check Yes Or No; performing artist: George Strait)

And you can sweat from a burn in the third degree (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

Third! Holy cow, stolen base (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? (references; author: unknown)

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. (references; author: unknown)

A good friend see the first tear, catches the second, and stops the third. (references; author: unknown)

On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if you can't remember where you parked your car for the third time this week. (references; author: unknown)

The Third Girl from the Left (1973)

Third Eye Butterfly (1968)

498 Third Avenue (1967)

Operation Third Form (1966)

The Third Day (1965)

Third World America (performing artist: Toxic Reasons)

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References

• Fifth Third Bancorp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Review of the burley tobacco program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 29, 1993, Lexington, KY (reference)

• The heart of the matter ; Stamboul train ; A burnt-out case ; The third man ; The quiet American ; Loser takes all ; The power and the glory (reference)

• Health risks associated with exposure to gasoline additives, methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, special hearing (reference)

• The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) (reference)

• Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices (Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Administrative Law Third Series (reference)

• Bills Of The Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly - Third Reading (reference)

• Contours - Ecumenical Coalition On Third World Tourism Ectwt (reference)

• International Third World Studies Journal & Review (reference)

• Journal Of Third World Studies (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The X-Files - The Complete Third Season (reference)

• The Third Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Third Man & Other Original Recordings (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Third Party 4-post Rackmount Dl380 G2 Option Kit (reference)

• Microsoft Encarta Africana Third Edition (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured are instruments used in endoscopy. They are highlighted in an otherwise dark picture and lying on a textured cloth. Shown are flexible fibers, a small brush and a third instrument in some photos. The fibers transmit high intensity light through the endoscope shown. The brushes are used to take biopsies. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Three drawings of individuals checking themselves during a skin self exam. First is a man standing, examing his back in a mirror; second, a woman sitting on stool examing her feet; third, woman checking face in hand mirror. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (artist).

This virus enters an organism by ingestion of water and food contaminated by human feces, and reaches the liver through the bloodstream. HAV infection is endemic in third world countries, and is prevalent in the Far East. Credit: CDC.

Third day of rash. Credit: CDC.

Saturn V Third Stage LM Adapter. Credit: NASA.

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to boulder at Taurus-Littrow during third EVA. Credit: NASA.

Lieutenant Cindy McFee visits with penguins at Little America Lt. McFee was on the way to South Pole Station She was the third woman to winter over. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Two trucks pulling a third from a mudhole Here and there in Idaho and Montana Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The "Skylab" building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on the third floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Looking south at Cannon Beach. Haystack Rock is third from right. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And forfeiture gives the third, despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies. (reference)

Third.­The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. (reference)

If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The first column is for choice of subject, the second for arrangement, the third for colouring

The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate

Again, a third instance

He so determined, and pushed the door a third time, harder than before

This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad Turpin Hero which begins in the first person and ends in the third person

THIRD MESSENGER

He wore a massive gold wedding ring on the third finger of his left hand

One is blue, the other red, and the third green

The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

As editors, we have chosen a third route. (references)

Third, one must strive to enhance behavior that limits sun exposure. (references)

About one third of cases reflect new mutations and the rest are familial. (references)

Business

Restaurants are the third largest end-user group. (references)

Compuserve ranks third with 0.25 million subscribers. (references)

Many third country companies use bribes to win tenders. (references)

Children

Pakistan

In August a former provincial official reported that a survey revealed that half of the third grade teachers at one school in Punjab did not know their multiplication tables. (references)

Russia

On October 24, the Third Congress of the All-Russian Society of Invalids, which represents more than 2 million persons, called on the Government to devote more resources to help the more then 4 million persons with disabilities in the country. (references)

Ukraine

In 1997 the All-Ukrainian Committee for Protection of Children released a survey that revealed that every fifth or sixth child of both sexes under age 18 suffered from sexual harassment (including every third girl), and that every 10th girl is raped. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

A third person also was injured. (references)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

A third weekly newspaper is nonpartisan. (references)

Colombia

A third suspect was charged but died before the trial. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

A third advertising medium is radio. (references)

Brazil

Portugal took third place with a 6% share. (references)

Ecuador

Associates are not liable to third parties. (references)

Human Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

This was the third prosecution of Kulov in 2 years. (references)

Belarus

It was the third such "burglary" of the Committee's office in the last 4 years. (references)

Guatemala

Police continued to search for a third officer who was also allegedly involved. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

A total of seven persons were injured in these incidents, including two police officers responding to the third incident. (references)

Panama

On the other hand, second and third generation Chinese are seen as distinct from recent immigrants, and generally are accepted in society. (references)

Germany

With an estimated 3 million adherents, Islam is the third most commonly practiced religion in the country (after Catholicism and Lutheranism). (references)

Political Economy

Ghana

Tourism is the third largest foreign exchange earner. (references)

Armenia

Armenia, per capita, is the third largest recipient of U.S. aid. (references)

Spain

The economy grew during the third quarter at a 2.6 percent annual rate. (references)

Political Rights

Barbados

The Attorney General was named third in command of the Government. (references)

Jamaica

The opposition party was forced to apologize when its supporters looted the convenience store of the campaign manager for a third party candidate. (references)

Namibia

Leaders of the opposition have criticized the ruling party for its decision to amend the Constitution to permit the President to seek a third term. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Turkey ranks third among European countries in terms of number of standards. (references)

Argentina

Other Argentine private and public organizations also benefit from third country largesse. (references)

Egypt

Law No. 17/2001 Applying the second and third stages of the General Sales Tax Law 11/1991. (references)

Travel

Chad

A third consulting firm, Tchad Vision 2000, represents De Chazal de Mie. (references)

Thailand

Purpose of visit: TRANSIT (requiring proof of confirmed onward ticket to a third country). (references)

Chile

Third, for a foreigner to drive legally, he/she must have an international driver's permit. (references)

Women

Japan

Husbands have been prosecuted for spousal rape; usually these cases involved a third party who assisted in the rape. (references)

Spain

The female unemployment rate was 18.6 percent in the third quarter of the year, down from 20 percent in 2000; this is nearly twice the 8.9 percent rate for men. (references)

Japan

Projects in the first category were funded by private donations, while the second and third types of projects were financed by the Government and administered by the AWF. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Another 12-year-old survived with third degree burns. (references)

Slovenia

A third, much smaller, regional labor union operates on the Adriatic coast. (references)

United Kingdom

A third NGO, Womankind Worldwide, works with overseas partners on trafficking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The third idol

The third

The third

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Expressions using "third": a minor third ♦ a third ♦ accident to a third party ♦ braking action on each third of runway ♦ Brothers of the Third Order of St Francis ♦ error of the third kind ♦ give the third degree ♦ hypothalamic sulcus of the third ventricle ♦ in the third place ♦ in third place ♦ Kepler's third law ♦ Major third ♦ Mendel's third law ♦ minor third ♦ Newton's third law ♦ Newton's third law of motion ♦ one third ♦ Petty Officer Third Class ♦ ride in the third class ♦ the third degree ♦ The Third Way ♦ third Baron Rayleigh ♦ third base ♦ third baseman ♦ third basket ♦ third battle of Ypres ♦ third brush ♦ third class ♦ third cousin ♦ third cranial nerve ♦ third Crusade ♦ third deck ♦ third degree ♦ third degree murder ♦ third dimension ♦ third estate ♦ third eye ♦ third eyelid ♦ third gear ♦ third generation ♦ third generation computer ♦ third generation language ♦ third house ♦ Third Lake ♦ third law of motion ♦ third law of thermodynamics ♦ third level ♦ third market ♦ third normal form ♦ third of the bonnet top ♦ Third order ♦ third order intercept point ♦ third part ♦ third party ♦ third party insurance ♦ third party logistics ♦ third period ♦ third person ♦ third power ♦ third rail ♦ third rate ♦ third reich ♦ third root ♦ third sacker ♦ third shift ♦ Third sound ♦ third stomach ♦ third territory ♦ third tonsil ♦ third trimester ♦ Third Ventricle ♦ Third Way ♦ third world ♦ trusted third party. Additional references.

Beginning with "third": third-age, third-based, third-best, third-biggest, third-born, Third-borough, third-bottom, third-brake, third-category, third-century, third-change, third-choice, third-class, third-class mail, third-country, third-cousins, third-day, third-degree, third-degree burn, third-dimensional, third-dimensionality, third-division, third-end, third-fastest, third-finger-of-the-left-hand, third-floor, third-formers, third-from-bottom, Third-from-the-left, third-gear, third-generation, third-growth, third-hand, third-highest, third-holiest, third-inning, third-largest, third-last, third-level, third-level air carrier, third-man, third-minute, third-octave, third-of-an-acre, third-of-a-second, third-of-the, third-or, third-order, third-parties, third-party, Third-Party Consent, third-party-payer, Third-penny, third-person, third-personal, third-phase, third-pint, third-place, third-place finish, third-placed, third-preference, third-quarter, third-rail, Third-rail system, third-rank, third-ranking, third-rate, third-rater, third-raters, third-reading, third-richest, third-round, third-row, third-second, third-seeded, third-set, third-share, third-stage, third-storey, third-story, third-string, third-strongest, third-team, third-than, third-tier, third-time, third-time-lucky, third-to, third-tones, third-top, third-trimester, third-wave, third-wicket, third-world, third-world country, third-world-debt, third-worldism, third-worst, third-year, third-years.

Ending with "third": fifty-third, late-third, mid-third, one-third, soviet-third, thirty-third, twenty-third.

Afrikaans

derde. (various references)

Albanian

një e tretë, i tretë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ثلث, ‏ثالث (tertiary). (various references)

Asturian

terceru. (various references)

Aymara

quimsïri. (various references)

Basque

hirugarren. (various references)

Bemba

icacitatu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

трети. (various references)

Cebuano

ikatulo. (various references)

Chamorro

tetseru. (various references)

Chinese 

第三 (No. 3). (various references)

Czech

trojka (three, Trey), tercie, třetina, třetí, tøetí. (various references)

Danish

tredje. (various references)

Dutch

derde (third party, third person). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

quimsaniqui. (various references)

Esperanto

triono, tria (third hour). (various references)

Faeroese

triðingur, triði. (various references)

Farsi 

یک سوم , سومی , سوم , ثلث , ثالث (Tertiary), به سه بخش تقسیم کردن . (various references)

Finnish

kolmas. (various references)

French

tiers (third party). (various references)

Frisian

tredde. (various references)

German

Dritte (co-respondent), dritter (third party, third person), Drittel (one third). (various references)

Greek 

τρίτοσ, τρίτος. (various references)

Hebrew 

שלישי (tertiary), טרצה. (various references)

Hungarian

harmadik. (various references)

Indonesian

pertiga, ketiga (tertiary). (various references)

Inuktitut

pigasunga. (various references)

Italian

terzo (third party, third person). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ゴルフ場 (ace, circle, circlet, circlip, circuit, circuit breaker, circuit training, circular fluorescent lamp, circular skirt, circulation, circulator, circumscribe, circumscription, circus, club, Gauloise, golf course, golf links, gondola, gong, goods or services without charge, grounder, saber, sabre, sabre-toothed tiger, sardine, sardonyx, search, searcher, searchlight, serge, sergeant, servant, serve, serve point, server, service, service area, service car, service girl, service room, service station, service yard, snap ring, sports club, support system, surcharge, surf cast, surf casting, surf rider, surf roller, surf ski, surf trolling, surfboard, surfer, surfing, surge, surveillance, survey, Surveyor, thirty), 三番 (no. three). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さんばん (no. three), サード . (various references)

Kongo

ntatu. (various references)

Korean 

제 3 의. (various references)

Macedonian

tret. (various references)

Manx

treeoo, treen (third fractional), trass. (various references)

Maori

tuatoru. (various references)

Norwegian

tredje. (various references)

Pig Latin

irdthay.(various references)

Portuguese

terceiro (third person). (various references)

Provencal

tresen. (various references)

Romanian

treime, treilea, trei (three), terţã (Tierce), viteza a treia. (various references)

Romansch

terz. (various references)

Ruanda

wagatatu. (various references)

Russian 

третий. (various references)

Samoan

lona tolu. (various references)

Scottish

treas (num. the third). (various references)

Sepedi

ya boraro. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trećina (one third), treći (minimus), terca (tierce). (various references)

Shona

chitatu (Wednesday). (various references)

Sicilian

terzu. (various references)

Spanish

tercero (third party), tercio (mass). (various references)

Swahili

-a tatu, a tatu. (various references)

Swedish

tredje. (various references)

Tagalog

ikatló. (various references)

Thai

แฟนสาว (Richard the Third), อึ (cack, dump, Eartha (Kitt), kak, log, Richard the Third). (various references)

Turkish

üçte bir, üçüncü. (various references)

Turkmen 

ьзьnji. (various references)

Ukrainian

третій, третім (third class), третина. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thứ ba, vật thứ ba, một phần ba người thứ ba. (various references)

Welsh

trydydd. (various references)

tertius. (various references)

thritîm, thrityô. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "third": thirdhand, thirdly, thirds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Third" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhuird, hird, htfiid, thart, theid, therd, therg, thewd, thid, thide, thied, thild, thind, thiod, thir, Thirdd, thirde, thire, thirk, thiro, thiry, Thord, thork, thri, thria, thrig, thrik, thrir, thrit, throd, thured, thyrd, thyrde, Thyre, tird, tirv, Tuirc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dirt, thir.

-2 letters: dit, hid, hit, rid.

-3 letters: hi, id, it, ti.

+1 letter: dither, thirds.

+2 letters: airthed, birthed, diether, ditcher, dithers, dithery, girthed, righted, theroid, thirdly, thirled, thrived, thyroid, writhed.

+3 letters: antherid, birdbath, birdshot, birthday, diethers, disherit, ditchers, dithered, ditherer, eldritch, frighted, handwrit, hardiest, heredity, hidrotic, philtred, redshift, redshirt, thirsted, thrilled, thyreoid, thyroids, thyrsoid, tracheid, trichoid, trihedra, trochoid, trophied, withdraw, withdrew, withered.

+4 letters: anhydrite, antherids, apartheid, atrophied, birdbaths, birdshots, birthdate, birthdays, blithered, charioted, chittered, chondrite, chromatid, dehorting, delighter, diathermy, dichromat, disherits, dishwater, ditherers, dithering, dithyramb, doughtier, dowitcher, downright, droplight, drouthier, erythroid, etherized, euthyroid, firsthand, freighted, handprint, handwrite, hardiment, headfirst, herniated, hidrotics, hybridity, hydrating, hydration, hysteroid, inearthed, inherited, inthroned, lightered, midrashot, philtered, printhead, redshifts, redshirts, relighted, resighted, rhodolite, rhodonite, rhytidome, rightward, slithered, swithered, tarnished, theorised, theorized, therapsid, thirdhand, threadfin, threadier, threading, threnodic, thyroidal, tracheids, trailhead, trephined, trihedral, trihedron, trihybrid, triumphed, trochoids, uprighted, windthrow, withdrawn, withdraws, wordsmith.