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third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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)
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | third base |
| Type of | position |
he is playing third.
third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | one-third, tierce |
| Type of | common fraction, simple fraction |
it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement.
third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | third gear |
| Type of | gear mechanism, gear |
you shouldn't try to start in third gear.
third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | third base |
| Type of | bag, base |
he was cut down on a close play at third.
third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | rank |
a distant third.
he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment.
third::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | musical interval, interval |
a simple harmony written in major thirds.
Examples of third
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For the third time in six seasons, Terrible Towels will twirl at the Super Bowl.
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He was a third baseman in the Cards organization until David Freese came aboard.
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Riley was third at the district meet while Watt was sixth and Bevirt was eighth.
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He has twice visited Zambia and he plans to make a third trip later this summer.
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The third judge said Sarvies knows who he is an artist and could go all the way.
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Descalso has mostly played second base, but looked fine playing third last year.
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Six-foot-2 senior Jamie Buehrig is a third year starter with a lot of potential.
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Jones was called out at the plate and Scrum was thrown out going for third base.
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In the third quarter, he was called for interference again on a third-down pass.
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- In the third place; "third we must consider unemployment"
- Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
- One-third: one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
- Third base: 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); "he is playing third"
- 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"
- The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
- In music, the third factor of a chord is the note or pitch three scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the third is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in first inversion .
- Comic strip formats vary widely from publication to publication, so that the same newspaper comic strip may appear in a half-dozen different formats with different numbers of panels, different sizes of panels and different arrangement of panels.
- Third was the last play written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
