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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
third
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a developing/Third World country (=poor and trying to increase its industry and trade)
▪ Many developing countries receive some foreign aid.
a first/second/third etc edition
▪ The first edition was published in 1986.
beat sb into second/third etc place
▪ He was beaten into second place in the Monaco Grand Prix.
come first/second/third etc in a competition
▪ Stuart came second in the swimming competition.
enter its third week/sixth day/second year etc
▪ The talks have now entered their third week.
finish first/second/third etc
▪ He finished second in the 100 metres, behind Ben Johnson.
first/second/third class honours degree
first/second/third etc gear
▪ The heavy traffic meant that we seldom got out of second gear.
put the car etc into (first/second/third etc) gear
▪ He put the car into gear, and they moved slowly forwards.
second/third etc from bottom
▪ United currently lie second from bottom of the Premier League.
the first/second/third/fourth quarter
▪ The home side took the lead in the second quarter.
the first/second/third/fourth quarter
▪ The company’s profits rose by 11% in the first quarter of the year.
the Premier/First/Second/Third/Fourth Division
▪ a second-division club
third class
▪ We travelled third-class.
third degree
▪ I got home after midnight and Dad gave me the third degree.
third party
third party
▪ Does third party insurance cover pay for this type of damage?
third person
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) second/third/fourth hand
▪ A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.
▪ Deathtraps: Coroner's warning over second hand electrical goods.
▪ Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand, or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building.
▪ The Fourth Hand glides to a soft landing in Wisconsin, and readers will be left smiling.
▪ The leader takes a watch with a second hand, points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet.
▪ The second hand had its own dial at the bottom of the face.
▪ The story is now taken up at second hand.
▪ There is even a chapter on buying second hand - which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees.
first/second/third etc place
▪ But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident.
▪ But it's even more of a comfort for baby if he doesn't get wind in the first place.
▪ In the opening 250 race Robert Dunlop stayed well clear of a hectic battle for second place behind him.
▪ In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
▪ The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy's parents for letting him play there in the first place.
▪ There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place.
▪ We never enjoyed them in the first place.
▪ Why had they come to this country in the first place?
give sb the third degree
▪ I was just out with friends - you don't have to give me the third degree.
▪ Whenever one of my boyfriends came to the house, Dad would give them the third degree.
▪ And would Feargal now give him the third degree?
in the third person
▪ Better rewrite it in the third person.
▪ He writes of himself in the third person.
▪ Hint: He often refers to himself in the third person.
▪ I was angry to hear Steve talk about me in the third person.
▪ She speaks of herself not only in the third person, but in generic terms.
▪ She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly.
▪ Tennyson talks for Tithonus in the third person.
▪ With a fictional character, described in the third person, there is nothing that may not be said.
lie (in) second/third/fourth etc (place)
▪ After his win in Frankfurt on Sunday, he lies second in the series just behind Michel Robert.
▪ Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru, McRae now lies third in the championship.
the Third Reich
the third person
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ This is her third marriage.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
party
▪ Capacity will also be made available on the trains for up to 20,000 swap bodies owned by third parties.
▪ The Teamsters do not have the usual grievance-step procedure, ending in a final, binding arbitration by a neutral third party.
▪ The cheapest price he was offered was £730 third party fire and theft.
▪ Physical movement of inventory items into or out of the warehouse is supervised by an independent third party employed by the lender.
▪ The judge said the court did not feel it right to interfere with arrangements by innocent third parties and those holding tickets.
▪ The problem is then transformed into finding a trusted third party to create these certificates.
▪ The division will develop partnerships and joint ventures with third parties and will fast track digital businesses and development.
▪ As for talks, they can't take place without some guarantee from an independent third party.
person
▪ Cameron and the school district sit down with a neutral third person to negotiate an agreement that both sides find acceptable.
▪ One event that may have brought on those moods was the arrival of an unwelcome third person in the Alley family.
world
▪ The mullahs were no better at curing characteristic third world socio-economic ills than the secular regimes they despised.
▪ Building a first world economy on top of a massive third world workforce does not create the strongest of economic foundations.
▪ A few third world countries will have automatic entry.
▪ However, many third world traders do more than circulate goods for sale.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) second/third/fourth hand
▪ A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.
▪ Deathtraps: Coroner's warning over second hand electrical goods.
▪ Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand, or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building.
▪ The Fourth Hand glides to a soft landing in Wisconsin, and readers will be left smiling.
▪ The leader takes a watch with a second hand, points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet.
▪ The second hand had its own dial at the bottom of the face.
▪ The story is now taken up at second hand.
▪ There is even a chapter on buying second hand - which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees.
a poor second/third etc
▪ All in all marriage was a pragmatic affair and individual desires came a poor second to the harmony of the group.
▪ Food was taking a poor second on my diet sheet this evening.
▪ It is true though, that where waters are absolutely saturated with maggots, even bread comes a poor second.
▪ Peter hit a poor drive and a poor second, to the right of a nasty greenside bunker.
▪ Saturn is a poor third, and Jupiter is dead last.
▪ The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system.
▪ The Socialists would come a poor second with 26.5%; the Communists could expect no more than 7%.
▪ They have a poor third quarter.
first/second/third etc place
▪ But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident.
▪ But it's even more of a comfort for baby if he doesn't get wind in the first place.
▪ In the opening 250 race Robert Dunlop stayed well clear of a hectic battle for second place behind him.
▪ In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
▪ The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy's parents for letting him play there in the first place.
▪ There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place.
▪ We never enjoyed them in the first place.
▪ Why had they come to this country in the first place?
give sb the third degree
▪ I was just out with friends - you don't have to give me the third degree.
▪ Whenever one of my boyfriends came to the house, Dad would give them the third degree.
▪ And would Feargal now give him the third degree?
in the third person
▪ Better rewrite it in the third person.
▪ He writes of himself in the third person.
▪ Hint: He often refers to himself in the third person.
▪ I was angry to hear Steve talk about me in the third person.
▪ She speaks of herself not only in the third person, but in generic terms.
▪ She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly.
▪ Tennyson talks for Tithonus in the third person.
▪ With a fictional character, described in the third person, there is nothing that may not be said.
lie (in) second/third/fourth etc (place)
▪ After his win in Frankfurt on Sunday, he lies second in the series just behind Michel Robert.
▪ Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru, McRae now lies third in the championship.
the Third Reich
the third person
third party insurance/cover/policy
▪ Members of the scheme also benefit from a third party insurance, for a premium of £2 a year.
▪ With some landowners now looking towards insisting on third party cover for climbers, insurance is increasingly looking indispensable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Divide the sandwich into thirds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third, smaller group will consist of veterans whose illnesses can not be tied to Gulf War service, he said.
▪ But two of the lambs died within minutes of birth, and a third died at ten days.
▪ Nearly half the runoff came from Colorado and another third from Wyoming and Utah.
▪ One big headache is the banks' large mortgage portfolios, which account for over a third of their total loans.
▪ The third, and most innovative, idea is symbolized by the smart card.
▪ The company has lost one third of its investment.
▪ The Raiders have struggled on third down all season.
▪ Throughout the last third of the Cretaceous the dinosaurs slowly declined in diversity and numbers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Third

Third \Third\ (th[~e]rd), a. [OE. thirde, AS. [thorn]ridda, fr. [thorn]r[=i], [thorn]re['o], three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. [thorn]ri[eth]i, Goth. [thorn]ridja, L. tertius, Gr. tri`tos, Skr. t[.r]t[=i]ya. See Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction, Tierce.]

  1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. ``The third night.''
    --Chaucer.

  2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. Third estate.

    1. In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons.

    2. In France, the tiers ['e]tat. See Tiers ['e]tat.

      Third order (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, n., 1.

      Third person (Gram.), the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7.

      Third sound. (Mus.) See Third, n.,

Third

Third \Third\, n.

  1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

  2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.

  3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

  4. pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

    Major third (Mus.), an interval of two tones.

    Minor third (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
third

late Old English metathesis of þridda, from Proto-Germanic *thridja- (cognates: Old Frisian thredda, Old Saxon thriddio, Middle Low German drudde, Dutch derde, Old High German dritto, German dritte, Old Norse þriðe, Danish tredie, Swedish tredje, Gothic þridja), from PIE *tri-tyo- (cognates: Sanskrit trtiyas, Avestan thritya, Greek tritos, Latin tertius (source of Italian terzo, Spanish tercio, French tiers), Old Church Slavonic tretiji, Lithuanian trecias, Old Irish triss, Welsh tryde), suffixed form of root *trei- (see three).\n

\nMetathesis of thrid into third is attested from c.950 in Northumbrian, but overall thrid was prevalent up to 16c. The noun meaning "third part of anything" is recorded from late 14c. Third rail in electric railway sense is recorded from 1890. Third World War as a possibility first recorded 1947. Third-rate "of poor quality" is from 1814, ultimately from classification of ships (1640s); third class in railway travel is from 1839. Third Reich (1930) is a partial translation of German drittes Reich (1923). Third party in law, insurance, etc., is from 1818.

Wiktionary
third
  1. The ordinal number form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. n. 1 The person or thing in the third position. 2 One of three equal parts of a whole. 3 (context uncountable English) The third gear of an engine. 4 (context music English) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. 5 (context baseball English) third base 6 (context archaic English) 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. v

  2. 1 To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been second#Verb. 2 To divide into three equal parts.

WordNet
third
  1. adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [syn: 3rd, tertiary]

  2. being one of three equal parts; "a third share of the money" [syn: third(a)]

third

adv. in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment" [syn: thirdly]

third
  1. n. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement" [syn: one-third, tierce]

  2. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 3rd base; "he is playing third" [syn: third base]

  3. 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"

  4. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds"

  5. 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" [syn: third gear]

  6. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third" [syn: third base]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Third

Third or 3rd may refer to:

Third (Soft Machine album)

Third is the third studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, originally released in 1970 as a double LP, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single, long composition.

Third (play)

Third is the last play written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2005. The play involves a female professor and her interactions with a student.

Third (Big Star album)

Third, also (since 1985) re-issued as Sister Lovers, is the third studio album by American rock band Big Star. It was recorded in 1974. Though Ardent Studios created test pressings for the record in 1975, a combination of financial issues, the uncommercial sound of the record, and lack of interest from singer Alex Chilton and drummer Jody Stephens in continuing the project prevented the album from ever being properly finished or released at the time of its recording. It was eventually released in 1978 by PVC Records.

After two commercially unsuccessful albums, Third documents the band's deterioration as well as the declining mental state of singer Alex Chilton. It has since gone on to become one of the most critically acclaimed albums in history and is considered a cult album. Rolling Stone placed the album at number 449 on its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.

Third (Portishead album)

Third is the third studio album by the English band Portishead, released on 28 April 2008 on Island Records in the United Kingdom, 29 April on Mercury Records in the United States and 30 April on Universal Music Japan in Japan. Portishead's first studio album in 11 years, it moved away from the trip hop style the band had popularised, incorporating influences such as krautrock, surf rock, doo wop and the film soundtracks of John Carpenter. It was listed as one of the best albums of 2008 by several publications, entered the top ten of several countries' music charts, and has Gold certification in the UK.

Third (chord)

In music, the third factor of a chord is the note or pitch two scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the third is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed triad, the chord is in first inversion .

Conventionally, the third is third in importance to the root and fifth, with first inversion being the second strongest inversion and the third in all primary triads (I, IV, V and i, iv, v) being variable, major or minor. In jazz chords and theory, the third is required due to it determining chord quality.

The third in both major and augmented chords is major (E in C) and the third in both minor and diminished chords is minor (E in C).

Third (curling)

In curling, a third (alternatively, vice, vice-skip or mate) is the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team's stones in an end. The third is in charge of strategy and directing the sweepers when the skip is delivering their stones, but sweeps for the lead and second. The two vices are responsible for determining and recording the score after each end, and in most clubs, will determine by lot which team begins a game with the hammer and what colour stones each team will use. The third position requires a curler adept at executing shots with a high degree of accuracy, especially draws and other finesse shots, as the third needs to set up the house for the skip's stones.

Usage examples of "third".

A third hypothesis, which may be seen as complementary to the second, is that today capital continues to accumulate through subsumption in a cycle of expanded reproduction, but that increasingly it subsumes not the noncapitalist environment but its own capitalist terrain-that is, that the subsumption is no longer formal but real.

As its manifesto and program are practically identical with those of the Communist Party of America, while all its members are likewise affiliated with the Third or Moscow International, the foregoing characterization of the Communist Party applies without essential modification to the Communist Labor Party.

Emergency Convention, favored affiliation with the associates of the Moscow Conference as constituting the Third International.

Socialist commonwealth be imposed or exacted as condition of affiliation with the Third International.

Her hereditary rank in the third oldest family of Pesht, tenth Terran colony to join the Allegiancy Empire, had never meant anything to her.

When Elszabet was done with Ferguson and had looked in on the third cabin, where Alleluia, the synthetic woman, was being treated, she hurried back to A Cabin.

And now the Nevian defenders of the Third City had seemed and were employing the vast store of allotropic iron so opportunely delivered by Nerado.

While one of the candidates boasted the honors of his family, a second allured his judges by the delicacies of a plentiful table, and a third, more guilty than his rivals, offered to share the plunder of the church among the accomplices of his sacrilegious hopes.

The ambulance hit the front third of the van with a sickening thud, spinning it around like a toy and toppling it over.

Should you need an asylum, Aemilia, go to the house of a freedman, one Mincius, living in the third house on the right of a street known as the Narrow one, close behind the amphitheatre at the foot of the Palatine Hill, and knock thrice at the door.

As the second wave came in, around 0857, amphtracs of the first were beginning to retract, passing through the second, third and fourth waves with expert helmsmanship.

Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.

The third, and least common, way to get anthrax disease is by eating contaminated meat from infected animals.

The divine sanction, which the Apostle had bestowed on the fundamental principle of the theology of Plato, encouraged the learned proselytes of the second and third centuries to admire and study the writings of the Athenian sage, who had thus marvellously anticipated one of the most surprising discoveries of the Christian revelation.

They were certainly much closer to the People so freely apostrophized by the Third Estate than the lawyers, functionaries and professional men who made up that body.