THIRDS

"THIRDS" is a plural of: third.

Date "THIRDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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Property

Dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy; (gift); Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.

Crosswords: THIRDS

Two Thirds Sky: Artists in Desert Country (2002)

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Family group of farm Negroes. They work on thirds and fourths. Jefferson, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cent. Credit: Library of Congress.

Check row planted cotton. Touchberry Plantation, Issaquena County, Mississippi. This method, long used in corn in order to permit cross cultivation, eliminates as much as two thirds of the usual hand hoeing costs. Credit: Library of Congress.

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Ioabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and los. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member. (reference)

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For whether long or short the time Upon the hill they spent, Two thirds were passed in going up, One third in the descent

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Health

Because of the vague symptoms, PID goes unrecognized both by women and by their health care providers about two thirds of the time. Women who do have symptoms of PID most commonly have lower abdominal pain. Other signs and symptoms include fever, unusual vaginal discharge that may have a foul odor, painful intercourse, painful urination, irregular menstrual bleeding, and pain in the right upper abdomen (rare). (references)

Business

About two thirds of Italy’s plastic raw materials are imported. (references)

Agricultural commodities for export still generate two thirds of Argentina’s foreign exchange earnings. (references)

Debt for investments over US$ 60 million is limited to two thirds of the total value of the investment. (references)

Economic History

Uruguay

FDI comes from North America, Europe and MERCOSUR roughly by thirds. (references)

Cyprus

The southern two thirds of the island are under the control of the internationally-recognized Republic of Cyprus. (references)

Canada

Approximately two- thirds of building products consumed in Canada are used in industrial, commercial and institutional construction. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

On July 19, the President and the Justice Minister signed a decree releasing 210 inmates (both male and female) who had served at least two thirds of their sentences. (references)

Iran

The UNSR reported that approximately two thirds of the executions took place in public, contrary to regulations, and that state television broadcasted scenes from hangings on at least two occasions during the year. (references)

Political Economy

PERU

Moreover, about two thirds of deposits in the banking system are in dollars. (references)

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Ending with "THIRDS": two-thirds.

Danish

tredieklasses (whites), tredie sortering (whites), hvide (whites). (various references)

Dutch

thirds (whites). (various references)

Finnish

kaksi kolmannesta (two thirds), kahden kolmasosan enemmistö (two thirds majority). (various references)

French

thirds, blancs. (various references)

German

drittes, dritteln. (various references)

Greek 

λευκές (whites), τρίτες (whites). (various references)

Italian

dividere in tre parti. (various references)

Manx

scaa (a very thin person, adumbration, apparition, blight; thirds, cover, fence, fencing, fire guard, ghost, guise, hood, pretence, screen, shade, shadiness, shadow, timidity). (various references)

Pig Latin

irdsthay.(various references)

Spanish

tercios, terciar, tercera clase (third), blancos (whites). (various references)

Swedish

tredjedelar. (various references)

Misspellings

"THIRDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thides, Thirdd, thirde, thyrde, thyrus. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dirts, shirt, third.

-2 letters: dirt, dish, dits, hist, hits, rids, shri, sith, stir, thir, this.

-3 letters: dis, dit, hid, his, hit, ids, its, rid, sir, sit, sri, tis.

-4 letters: hi, id, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: dithers.

+2 letters: birdshot, diethers, disherit, ditchers, hardiest, redshift, redshirt, thirsted, thyroids, thyrsoid.

+3 letters: antherids, birdbaths, birdshots, birthdays, disherits, dishwater, ditherers, firsthand, headfirst, hidrotics, hysteroid, midrashot, redshifts, redshirts, resighted, slithered, swithered, tarnished, theorised, therapsid, tracheids, trochoids, withdraws, wordsmith.

+4 letters: anhydrites, apartheids, authorised, birthdates, chondrites, christened, chromatids, delighters, dichromats, disenthral, dishearten, disherited, dishwaters, disinherit, dispatcher, distraught, dithyrambs, doctorship, dowitchers, driveshaft, droplights, drouthiest, dysarthria, dystrophic, editorship, farsighted, handprints, handwrites, hardfisted, hardiments, heredities, hydrations, midrashoth, nightdress, orchardist, priesthood, printheads, rachitides, redshifted, redshirted, restitched, rhapsodist, rhinitides, rhodolites, rhodonites, rhytidomes, rightsized, rightwards, shirtdress, sisterhood, straighted, switchyard, therapsids, threadfins, threadiest, threnodies, threnodist, trailheads, trihedrals, trihedrons, trihybrids, undershirt, windthrows, wordsmiths.