third

Definition of third in English English dictionary: An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale
They sing in thirds.; The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second
The third tree from the left is my favorite.; The person or thing in the third position
Jones came in third.; The third gear of an engine
Now put it into third.; One of three equal parts of a whole
He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.; To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded; 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; To divide into three equal parts; third base
The play ended with Jones standing on third.; {n} a third part, the 6th part of a second; {a} the next in order to the second; in Western music, the jump from one note to another 5 half-steps away (covering 5 swarastaanas) For example, C to E, or in Carnatic, s to g3 Also called a perfect third (as opposed to a minor third); the player who delivers the third two rocks of each end, alternating with the opponent's third Also known as the vice skip, this player holds the broom, or target, when the skip shoots, and also helps the skip with game strategy; The third tone of the scale; the mediant; Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day; A third is the lowest honours degree that can be obtained from a British university. Third International Third Estate Third Reich Third Republic Third Section Third Department third world; {s} next after the second; being one of 3 equal parts; the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third"; the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 3rd base; "he is playing third"; 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"; The sixtieth part of a second of time; WORLD NATIONS: the underdeveloped nations of the world; the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds"; The interval of three diatonic degrees; The interval between two notes separated by two steps of the diatonic scale; 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"; within or heading a three-card holding [Usage: jack-third = three cards headed by the jack = jack-tripleton = Jxx ]; fraction (1/3) showing one divided by three -- "The answer is read, two and one third " (141); in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment"; Player who plays his two stones third; often Vice-Skip of the team; The middle pitch of a triad; The third note in the scale, (e g E in the scale of C ); one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"; The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life; A third is one of three equal parts of something. A third of the cost went into technology and services; coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment; tertiary part of the code used to describe a rock; coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position; The player who throws stones third for a team, who is usually the vice-skip; The middle note of a triad, named for its scale degree See Section 4 6; {i} number 3 in a series; one part of three equal parts, 1/3; Party Payer: Any payer for health care services other than you This can be an insurance company, an HMO, a PPO, or the Federal Government; the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds" 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" coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment; The third note of a scale; The third item in a series is the one that you count as number three. I sleep on the third floor It was the third time one of his cars had gone up in flames; Next after the second; coming after two others; the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day; You say third when you want to make a third point or give a third reason for something. First, interest rates may take longer to fall than is hoped. Second, in real terms, lending may fall. Third, bad loans could wipe out much of any improvement. = thirdly; being one of three equal parts; "a third share of the money"; The third degree of the diatonic scale Also, the interval formed by a given tone and the third tone above or below it, e g c up to e, or c down to a Intervals of the third may be major, minor, diminished, or augmented; thrid; {s} tertius
Third Camp: Alternative form of third camp
Third Freedom Rights: The right of an airline of one country to land in a different country and deplane passengers coming from the airline’s own country
Third Reich: Germany under the Nazi regime, beginning in January 1933 and ending in May 1945. Literally “third empire” or “third realm”
Third Way: Alternative form of third way
Third World: Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War
Third World: The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Third World War: see World War III
third base: Touching a man's or woman's genitals in a sexual manner; mutual masturbation
third base: The base after second base in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield
The runner reached third base with a stand-up triple.
third baseman: The infield defensive player that stands near third base
The third baseman charged in to field the bunt.
third basemen: plural form of third baseman
third bases: plural form of third base
third bridge guitar: A stringed musical instrument, with three bridges, played at the inverse side with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick)
third camp: A socialist ideology, originating in Trotskyism, which aims to support the organised working class, as opposed to capitalism, or another prominent force, originally Stalinism and in the 1990s and 2000s often Islamism
third class: a reduced-rate mail service for printed matter
third class: formerly the cheapest accomodation on a train
third conditional: A structure used to talk about unreal or unfulfilled events in the past, containing and "if" clause and a main clause
If Columbus hadn't discovered America, he wouldn't have been famous. is an example of a third conditional sentence.
third cousin: A person whose closest common ancestor with another person is a great-great-grandparent
third degree: intensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession
When I came home at 4am, my dad really gave me the third degree.
third dimension: the quality, of depth or thickness, that differentiates a solid object from a two-dimensional image of it
third down: The third down in a series that has a maximum of four downs; traditionally the last running/passing play before punting
third estate: The caste of commoners in France prior to 1789
third estate: The commoners, collectively, in any society
third eye: A personal source of psychic visions and clairvoyance according to certain New Age beliefs
third finger: The ring finger
third finger: The middle finger
third gear: The third gear of an engine
third grade: The period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade
third grades: plural form of third grade
third hand: Not new, having more than one previous owner
third innings: the third of the possible four innings in a match; the second innings of either the side batting first, or the side batting second if following on
third island chain: The Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Sumatra; from Burma in the north to either the Indonesian Archipelago, or Australia in the south
third island chain: The Aleutian Islands, Emperor Seamounts, Hawaiian Islands, Line Islands, New Zealand; from Alaska to New Zealand or Tasmania and Australia
third leg: penis (specifically a long one)
third man: a fielding position on the off side, behind square, near the boundary; a fielder in that position
third men: plural form of third man
third normal form: A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually independent (no transient dependencies.)
third order stream: A stream formed by the confluence of two second order streams, or of a second order stream and a third order stream
third party: someone not directly involved in a transaction. A third entity in the Seller (first party) and Customer (second party) relationship. A Seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product. For example, a manufacturer may employ a third party to pack and distribute a product. A computer manufacturer may augment their product with software from a third party supplier
third party: a political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system
third party processor: A company that is contracted, by a bank etc., to conduct some part of a financial transaction process; especially a company that provides software or hardware for such a process
third person: In grammar, the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is not the audience or the one making the statement. In English, pronouns used with the third person include he, she, it, one, they, and who
Is is the third person singular of to be.
third person: The pronouns he, she, it, they and one
third person: A form of narrative writing using verbs in the third person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to another person
third rail: anything that is dangerous to come into contact with, or is best avoided
Social security is the third rail of American politics: touch it and your political career dies.
third rail: The electrified rail that runs besides, or between train tracks to power electric trains
third rails: plural form of third rail
third session: the session of a day's play between tea and close of play
third slip: a fielding position to the off side of second slip; a fielder in that position
third string: Of a decidedly lower quality or condition
third string: A unit of players that plays behind the first and second strings; a junior varsity team
third time's a charm: One is sure to succeed at a task or event on the third try
third umpire: A match official who uses TV replays to assist the two umpires in the case of close decisions
third umpires: plural form of third umpire
third way: An approach or solution which strives for a middle ground between two opposing viewpoints
third way: An ideology which seeks to find middle ground between right- and left-wing politics, associated during the 1990s with various centre-left political parties in Europe, North America and Australia
third wheel: An unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date
third wheel: A person or thing that serves no useful purpose
third wheels: plural form of third wheel
third world: Alternative spelling of Third World
third-degree: The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felonies
He was recently convicted of third-degree manslaughter because of his drunken-driving accident.
third-degree: Causing severe scarring, loss of epidermis, subcutaneous tissue and possibly of hair, which is more damaging than first-degree, second-degree and less than fourth-degree burns
third-degree burn: A severe burn that destroys skin and underlying tissue and exposes nerve endings
third-degree burns: plural form of third-degree burn
third-grader: An immature person
third-grader: Someone who is in third grade
third-party: Originating from such a video game
third-party character.
third-party: Of a video game, developed and published by an independent video game publisher or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party
third-party video game.
third-party: Of or related to a third party
third-party claim: A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant
third-party claims: plural form of third-party claim
third-person: Of a narrative, using verbs in the third person
third-person: Of a verb, in the third person
third-person plural: The pronoun they (or its equivalents in other languages)
third-person plural: : The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with plural nouns and with the pronoun they (or its equivalents in other languages)
Are is the third-person plural of the verb to be.
third-person plurals: plural form of third-person plural
third-person shooter: A combat video game of a kind with a perspective view, typically positioning the camera over the shoulder of the player
third-person shooters: plural form of third-person shooter
third-person singular: The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages)
Is is the third-person singular of to be.
third-person singular: The pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages)
third-person singulars: plural form of third-person singular
third-rate: of lesser value or quality than second-rate
third-rate: a sailing warship that can be described with the adjective "third-rate"
third-rate: describing a British ship-of-the-line with 64 to 80 guns divided onto two gun decks
third-string: a substitute or replacement
third-string: belonging to the third string of a team; one who plays behind the first and second strings
The young college quarterback was on the third-string, and played only during blowouts.
third-world: Of or from the Third World
thirdly: {a} in the third place, in the third order
thirds: {n} a third part of an estate belonging to the widow of a deceased person
Third Reich: Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime which he predicted would last 1,000 years as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806, the First Reich) and the German empire under the Hohenzollern dynasty (1871-1918, the Second Reich)
Third Reich: Nazi regime in Germany during the years 1933-45 (Reich of 1000 years)
Third Reich: The German state from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler. the period of Nazi government in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, from 1933 to
Third World: collective name for developing nations that are characterized by poor infrastructure and widespread poverty
Third World: The countries of Africa, Asia, and South America are sometimes referred to all together as the Third World, especially those parts that are poor, do not have much power, and are not considered to be highly developed. Compare First World. development in the Third World. Third World debt. the poorer countries of the world that are not industrially developed. Some people now consider this expression offensive. World. Political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S. or the second world the communist states led by the Soviet Union. The third world principally consists of the developing world, former colonies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With the end of the Cold War and the increased economic competitiveness of some developing countries, the term has lost its analytic clarity
third party: A person who is not a party to a contract but may become involved in an indirect way or be affected by it
third party: someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
third party: A person, not a party to the insurance contract, who has an alleged or actual claim for injury or damage against the person insured under the policy
third party: a political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system
third party: A product or service vendor (other than the primary vendor or customer) that supplies a necessary component of a system (e g software, circuit cards, etc )
third party: A person, business, or government agency not actively involved in a legal proceeding, agreement, or transaction
third party: In an insurance contract, a third party is anyone other than the policyholder and the family members covered under the insurance policy The policyholder is the first party The insurance company is the second party in the contract Anyone else is a third party
third party: A person that is not part of an insurance contract but is claiming against the insured The insurance company and the insured are the other two parties
third party: An individual other than the insured (First Party) or the insurer (Second Party) who has incurred a loss or is entitled to benefit payments that have resulted form the actions of the insured
third party: The cheapest and most basic type of motor insurance Third party covers damage to others' cars but not to your own
third party: A claimant under a liability policy, so called because he is not one of the two parties (insured and insurer) who has entered into the insurance contract which pays his claim
third party: The claimant under a liability policy So called because he/she is not one of the two parties, insured and insurer, to the insurance contract THRESHOLD (NO-FAULT): The point, measured in money, time or other ways, beyond which tort liability can be established Until that point is reached, reparations must be paid within the provisions of the no-fault plan, with no recourse to the courts
third party: means the decision-maker has no direct financial interest in the affairs of the member being certified, including an interest in the marketing of that member’s products
third party: In the parlance of American politics, "third party" refers to political parties outside the two-party system which are perceived to have a significant base of support In the 20th century, that has come to mean a party that is not the Republican Party or the Democratic Party and can play some role in influencing the outcome of an election
third party: The person other than the insured who has incurred a loss or is entitled to receive a benefit payment as a result of the acts or omissions of the insured
third party: third side, third partner, third person, foreign factor
third party: An outsider; a business or personal invitee or a party with absolutely no connection to an insured who may become a claimant under a form of public liability coverage because of injury or property damage alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the insured
third party: Third-party insurance is a type of insurance that pays money to people who are hurt or whose property is damaged as a result of something you have done. It does not pay you any money for damage you suffer as a result of your own actions. Premiums for third-party cover are set to rise by up to 25 per cent. someone who is not one of the two main people involved in an agreement or legal case, but who is affected by it or involved in it in some way. third party insurance/cover/policy insurance that pays money to someone who is hurt or whose property is damaged by something that you have done
third party: The deposit account, of an individual other than the Customer, designated to receive funds transferred from the Customer's source account
third party: Someone other than the policyholder or insurer who is involved in an insurance claim
third party: A political party organized to compete against the two major parties in a two-party system; currently in the U S , any party other than the Republican Party and the Democratic Party
third party: the claimant under an insurance policy, so called because the person making the claim is not one of the two parties (insured or insurer) to the insurance contract
third party: Parties fielding candidates from other that the two major parties, i e Democrat and Republican These were also known as minor parties
third party: A third party is a person who helps the disputants to resolve their conflict The third party is impartial and not involved in the conflict Examples of third parties are mediators, arbitrators, conciliators, facilitators and judges
third party: a political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
third party: When the person/company paying shipping and related charges are neither the shipper nor the consignee
third party: A third party is someone who is not one of the main people involved in a business agreement or legal case, but who is involved in it in a minor role. You can instruct your bank to allow a third party to remove money from your account
third party: Someone not named as an Insured party by the Insurance Policy Typically the other party in an auto accident (See First Party)
third party: one who by false reports creates trouble between two people, a person and a group, or a group and another group See also third party law
third party: A party who is not a signatory to an agreement but who may nevertheless have rights and obligations relating to that agreement
third party: (Tiers) In an Insurance Liability policy the third party is a person who may be injured or whose property may be damaged other than the insured or the insurance company A person claiming against the insured The company and the insured are the other two parties
third reich: the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)
third world: underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
thirdly: In the third place
thirdly: in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment"
thirdly: You use thirdly when you want to make a third point or give a third reason for something. First of all, there are not many of them, and secondly, they have little money and, thirdly, they have few big businesses. = third
thirdly: in the third place of order
thirdly: In the third place; third in a row
thirds: plural of third