third

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Editorial note

The third and correct option is "don't be a dick".

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Quick take

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of third gathered in one view.

noun

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

noun

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"

noun

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for third.

noun

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

noun

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"

noun

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"

noun

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

noun

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"

noun

the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third"

adjective

coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

adverb

in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment"

Example sentences

The third and correct option is "don't be a dick".

Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings.

You're going to ask that same coworker to lunch a second time, and eventually a third.

I was halfway through the third sentence when I caught myself thinking - "indeed, that does sound like such a better dea--- Hey wait a minute!".

I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox.

But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood.

Drive is also an open platform, so were working with many third-party developers so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups directly from Drive.

To which a third developer responds indignantly that the "official" workaround for this issue is sufficient and that the user should head over to the corresponding wiki page and improve the workaround description.

It also explains Paypal's active hostility to many other business models, including money services businesses, third-party payment aggregators, and travel agents.

If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple.

Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted.