Three Times

Definition: Three Times

Three Times

Adverb

1. By a factor of three; "our rent increased threefold in the past five years".

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

Synonym: Three Times

Approbation

Adverb: with credit, to admiration; well; with three times three.

Five

Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.

Triplication

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

Crosswords: Three Times

There's three times in a man's life when he's got a right to howl at the moon, when he marries, when his children are born and when he finishes a job he was crazy to start (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase)

From what I hear, he's been burgling you three times a week for the past month (Chicago; writing credit: Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse)

I said I was sorry three times! (A Streetcar Named Desire; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Oscar Saul)

As you can see here, you can save up to three times more than the more dependable companies (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Ms. Bitters, have you noticed anything strange about the hamster? He's three times his size and he has that hideous throbbing alien device on his back (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

You're trailer trash when you've been married three times and still have the same in-laws. (references; author: unknown)

Some people attend church three times in their lives: when they're hatched, when they're matched, and when they're dispatched. (references; author: unknown)

Three Times and Out (1915)

Three Times A Lady (performing artist: The Commodores)

Knock Three Times (performing artist: Tony Orlando and Dawn)

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Books

• House Broken: How I Remodeled My Home for Just Under Three Times the Original Bid (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Three Times Infinity (reference)

• Three Times and Waving [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Chris Doley, of NOAA, hauls an experimental crab pot from the water at a sampling site. Blue crab pot samples were taken at shallow-water sites around Poplar Island using pots with mesh sizes about three times smaller than used in commercial crab pots. The mesh in the pots used for sampling was about 1/2" of fine mesh netting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 45. Rung bathometer, designed by Captain George Rung of the Danish Meteorological Institute. It was a new type of pneumatic sounding device based on the principle advanced by the physician Kristian Prytz, also a Dane. It was considered an advancement on the Thompson tube. Depending on modifications, it could be used from 0 to 200 meters, or from two to three times deeper. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Today's active-duty force is still deploying more than three times as often with a force 60 percent of its former size. Roughly 90,000 airmen are deployed or stationed overseas. (P.; photo by, Master Sgt. Keith Reed)..

Black and white tempera drawing of Whistling Swans (now known as Tundra Swans) by Stanley Stearns, the second artist to win the contest three times. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

At Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, after the city's capture by Federal forces. This vessel, built along the lines of the "David"-type torpedo boats, but over three times as long, was intended for use as a blockade runner. Credit: NAVY.

Wagon built on the farm utilizing parts of wrecked Dodge truck. "The team can haul three times as much." Oregon, Kirby (Josephine County). Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

People came two or three times a day and rang his bell, in the Rue Mezieres, for it.

Three times around, the pump went

I encompassed it almost around before I could find a convenient place to land in, which was a small creek about three times the wideness of my canoe

We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This can be done two or three times a day. (references)

Boys are three times more likely to stutter than girls. (references)

Normal may be three times a day or three times a week depending on the person. (references)

Business

Diesel fuel is almost three times cheaper than gasoline at current price levels. (references)

GPRS transmits data three times as fast as the typical 9.6 kbit per second of present GSM technology. (references)

As a result, enrollments in colleges and universities have been three times as high as vocational schools in recent years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vanuatu

The television station provides English and French news service three times weekly. (references)

Yugoslavia

Most families have moved three times or more in search of better schooling or employment opportunities. (references)

Ghana

Students at the senior secondary school level are required to attend a similar assembly three times per week. (references)

Economic History

Barbados

Area: 431 sq. km. (166 sq. mi.); about three times the size of Washington, DC. (references)

Mexico

Area: 1,972,500 sq. km. (761,600 sq. mi.); about three times the size of Texas. (references)

Peru

Area: 1.28 million sq. km. (496,225 sq. mi.); three times larger than California. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

By one estimate, the country's prisons hold approximately three times their maximum planned capacity. (references)

South Africa

On March 2, a police captain shot three times and killed Makawe Makiti in Kabalskraal, near Cape Town. (references)

Venezuela

The investigating team was changed three times in 2000, with each new team starting an inquiry afresh. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

These actions have significantly reduced unemployment among ethnic minorities but the level is still three times higher than among the ethnically Dutch workforce. (references)

Political Economy

SINGAPORE

Trade was three times GDP in 2000; re-exports (transshipments) accounted for 43 percent of total merchandise exports. (references)

BELGIUM

However, strong regional differences in unemployment rates persist, with rates in Wallonia and Brussels being two to three times higher than in Flanders. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Credit terms are stiff to meet, usually requiring fixed assets exceeding one to three times the amount of credit requested. (references)

Germany

Since the requested deposit is about three times as high as that requested for returnable beer bottles, it disadvantages imported drinks. (references)

Poland

As property values in Poland are difficult to determine, banks often require property pledged as security to be worth two to three times the value of the loan. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Underground cable connections may, however, cost about three times that of overhead cables. (references)

Denmark

Automobiles are more heavily taxed than in other European countries and cost about three times what they would in the United States. (references)

Honduras

Major hotels and the airports in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula have a fleet of cabs that charge two to three times the normal rates. (references)

Women

China

The World Bank estimated the suicide rate in the country to be three times the global average; among women, it was estimated to be nearly five times the global average. (references)

Worker Rights

Suriname

The prison guard force struck three times for 1 to 3 days each time. (references)

Nicaragua

For example, some FTZ enterprises assert that they pay wages that average over $192 (2,400 cordobas) per month, three times the minimum wage. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "three times": ad three times ♦ three times a month ♦ three times as much ♦ with three times three. Additional references.

Chinese 

三次 (third). (various references)

Danish

tre gange (thrice). (various references)

Dutch

driemaal (thrice), drie keer (thrice). (various references)

Esperanto

trifoje. (various references)

Finnish

kolmesti, kolme kertaa, kolmasti. (various references)

French

trois fois (thrice). (various references)

German

dreimal (thrice, trebly), dreifach (ternary, threefold, treble, trebly, triple, triplex, triply). (various references)

Greek 

τρείς φορές (thrice). (various references)

Hungarian

háromszor (thrice). (various references)

Italian

tre volte (three, thrice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

三度 , 三次 (cubic), 三倍 (three-fold), 三回 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さ�"ばい (three-fold), さ�"ど (acidity), さ�"かい (adjournment, attendance, deployment, mountain mass, mountains and seas, obstetrician), さ�"じ (3 o'clock snack, childbirth, compliment, councillor, cubic, disaster, eulogy, horrible accident, newborn baby, praise, secretary, silkworm). (various references)

Pig Latin

eethray imestay.(various references)

Portuguese

trêsvezes (thrice). (various references)

Spanish

tres veces (threefold, thrice). (various references)

Swedish

tre gånger (thrice). (various references)

ter. (various references)

âthritîm. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hermetist, thermites.

-2 letters: emitters, eremites, erethism, teethers, termites, thermite.

-3 letters: eeriest, emeries, emitter, eremite, esthete, heister, hermits, hitters, meeters, meshier, metiers, metrist, mithers, reemits, remeets, retimes, sheeter, teemers, teeters, teether, teethes, termite, testier, tethers, thermes, tithers, triseme.

-4 letters: either, emeers, esteem, ethers, hermit, hitter, meeter, merest, merits, mestee, meters, metier, metres, mirths, mister, miters.

+3 letters: hereditaments, thermometries.

+4 letters: disheartenment, heterogameties, hysterectomies.

+5 letters: disheartenments, exothermicities, hysterectomized, reestablishment, stereochemistry.