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THIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Example:
he is playing third
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Holonyms ("third" is a member of...):
baseball team (a team that plays baseball)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
Example:
he was cut down on a close play at third
Synonyms:
third; third base
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
bag; base (a place that the runner must touch before scoring)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
Example:
you shouldn't try to start in third gear
Synonyms:
third; third gear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
gear; gear mechanism (a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle))
Holonyms ("third" is a part of...):
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
Example:
a simple harmony written in major thirds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)
Sense 5
Meaning:
One of three equal parts of a divisible whole
Example:
it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Following the second position in an ordering or series
Example:
he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("third" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb third
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the third place
Example:
third we must consider unemployment
Synonyms:
third; thirdly
Classified under:
Context examples:
Three times had our bearded friend from the Langham called for news—the third time within an hour of this fresh development.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And that third person could only have come in through the window.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We went through the second room towards the third.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A (ADNI-AVLT Version A) The number of words recalled from List A, third attempt.
(ADNI AVLT - List A Recall 3 Total, NCI Thesaurus)
Approximately one third of the cases have a malignant clinical course.
(Ovarian Steroid Cell Tumor, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)
So, while he copied the manuscript a third time, he consoled himself by multiplying ten columns by ten dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An autoimmune bullous dermatitis that develops during pregnancy, most often during the second and third trimesters.
(Pemphigoid Gestationis, NCI Thesaurus)
Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of words recalled from List A, third attempt.
(ADNI AVLT - List A Recall 3 Total, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
"She has lived with the wolves," said a third Indian.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The measurement of a lesion in the 'Z' (third) dimension.
(Performed Lesion Description Z Dimension, NCI Thesaurus)
