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# third

«third» in Mova's school dictionary: **Third comes after second in order: number 3** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number, adjective, noun (third, thirds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Third comes after second in order: number 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#m1)

2) A third is one of three equal parts of a whole, written 1/3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#m2)

3) Third place in a race wins a bronze medal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#m3)

4) Third gear is a gear in a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order position or a fraction (one third of); one third of a total means divide by 3; two thirds is the rest. Everyday: third grade, third floor, the third time, «third time lucky», a third of the class.

### examples

- He was third in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x1)
- One third of the 24 cookies were eaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x2)
- On the third day it rained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x3)
- She gave a third of her money away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x4)
- Cut the cake into thirds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x5)
- The third time she tried, she did it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x6)
- Two thirds of the Earth is covered by water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x7)
- She won a bronze medal for third place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x8)
- The third task was the hardest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/#x9)

### note

Written 3rd. As a fraction: one third of a total means divide by 3. Trap: «a third were eaten» gives the eaten part; what is left is the other two thirds. Trap: 1/3 as a decimal does not end (0.333...).

### In the corpora

- [Third time this week!» What she saw is one car in one space on Tuesday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/10/)
- [«Third time this week» is nobody's count, and why he parks there is his business until somebody simply asks him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/11/)
- [Third: people are now the strongest force on the planet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/6/)
- [It uses its beak like a third foot and holds its food in one foot like a hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/6/)
- [In London sparrow numbers fell by about two-thirds in a few decades, and scientists still argue why.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «third» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/third/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.