Word Finder - third

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The person or thing in the third position.

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Jones came in third.

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One of three equal parts of a whole.

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He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

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The third gear of a gearbox.

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Now put it into third.

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An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

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They sing in thirds.

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Third base

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The play ended with Jones standing on third.

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A handicap of one stroke every third hole.

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A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme

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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.

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To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.

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To divide into three equal parts.

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The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

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The third tree from the left is my favorite.

Your room is the third on the left.

A third of the time, we're sleeping!

I think it's your third job this year.

She struck fire with the third match and tossed it into the stove.

You never asked for the third condition.

On the third day after the beginning of the storm the snow ceased.

On the third day, he decided to land.

Instead of a third drink, a flash of cold fire was forced through the fangs into her body.

Halfway through the third bag, the girl let out a soft moan.

A third way to predict the future that I believe is reliable rejects both the slavish following of the straight line and the purely speculative approach.

I'd feel like a third wheel.

Someone must have already been on the way because she passed two more patrol cars and found a third waiting for her at the store.

The third room is filled with my wizard mad scientist husband's electronic hub bub of messy experiments.

The three largest quarters were located on the third floor, all presently booked by the two Dawkins brothers and wives, one pair of whom was not sleeping with his mate.

The third, the youngest, hurried toward the door, translator in hand as he had ordered.

But damned if she didn't recall the third condition.

I've set up the same old power sources as New Hampshire and I managed to gather up about a third of the same plants.

Absent Martha's soothing voice, Howie wasn't able to drift off until our third try.

There were people in the lobby, ahead of me but I blurted out my question like a third grader with a bladder problem.

On the third of September Pierre awoke late.

The two drinks and lack of a third caused him to be more direct than normal politeness would dictate.

Ne'Rin only came for her once during the third day, to bring her to stand by him while he received visitors.

As the third day came to a close, she suspected they – more specifically, Gabriel ­– had really let her go.

His first few blows were deflected, but the third slashed Sasha.s arm.

The moment the prisoner crossed the third step, she saw him.

On the third day after Kutuzov's report a country gentleman arrived from Moscow, and news of the surrender of Moscow to the French spread through the whole town.

On the third day he was taken with the others to a house where a French general with a white mustache sat with two colonels and other Frenchmen with scarves on their arms.

A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow.

Claire Elizabeth LeBlanc, all seven pounds, six ounces of her, came into the world at Dartmouth-Hitchcok Medical Center, in Keene, New Hampshire on June third.

Damian himself would be overjoyed, and Jule-- the third adopted brother in their threesome-- ecstatic.

She heard another boom, then a third.

The third was for you to agree to be my lifemate.

Another was hunch-backed and dressed in heavy robes despite the heat of the day, and a third man barely taller than her had white irises and silvering hair.

The three largest of these quarters were located on the third floor.

The three third floor rooms contained six ice climbers while Donald Ryland remained in the small first floor quarters.

She is the third to do so since I've been in this dreadful place.

She tested the second, third, and fourth.

In the third stall was Casper.

By the time he engaged the third, the woman was running once more.

Jule's is November third.

Lankha shoved another cube in her mouth, then a third.

Her paranoia faded with the first round of beers and disappeared completely by the third.

You didn't name a third.

Sarah wasted no time beginning her third degree.

He was the third man - the only man for her, because he could do something that neither her father nor Josh could.

You may be accustomed to scraping by in some third world country, but this is our country.

I am third generation PMF, like Brady.

She looked around when she reached the third mile marker, aware she was a sitting duck.

Dean rushed to the Philadelphia hospital where three days later a third heart attack claimed the woman's life.

The third guest was an 18-year-old from a nearby township, although the name on the registered vehicle was different than the motel listing.