Synonyms of the word

third

• adj. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
• n. The person or thing in the third position.
• n. One of three equal parts of a whole.
• n. (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.
• n. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
• n. (baseball) third base.
• n. (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number…
• v. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
• v. To divide into three equal parts.

bag

• n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
• n. (informal) A handbag.
• n. A suitcase.
• n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
• n. One’s preference.
• n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
• n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
• n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
• n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
• n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
• n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
• n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
• n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
• n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
• v. To put into a bag.
• v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
• v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
• v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
• v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
• v. To hang like an empty bag.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

fractional

• adj. Pertaining to a fraction.
• adj. Divided; fragmentary; incomplete.
• adj. Very small; minute.
• adj. (chemistry) Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation.
• n. (grammar) An expression of a fractional number.
• n. Partial ownership of a property, such as real estate or a chartered airplane, such that each partial owner…
• n. (chemistry) Relating to a fraction in a material distillation or separation process.

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

interval

• n. A distance in space.
• n. A period of time.
• n. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to…
• n. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
• n. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
• n. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.

one-third

• adj. Being one third of the usual dimension.

ordinal

• adj. Of a number, indicating position in a sequence.
• adj. (taxonomy) Of or relating to the groupings called orders.
• n. An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
• n. A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

rank

• adj. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
• adj. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
• adj. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
• adj. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
• adj. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
• adj. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
• adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
• adj. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
• adj. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• adj. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
• n. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the…
• n. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key…
• n. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
• n. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
• n. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• n. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• n. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• n. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
• n. (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number)…
• v. To place abreast, or in a line.
• v. To have a ranking.
• v. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• v. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

tertiary

• adj. Of third rank or order; subsequent.
• adj. (chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution…
• adj. (ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
• n. (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities…

thirdly

• adv. In the third place; third in a row.

tierce

• n. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of…
• n. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice,…
• n. (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
• n. (card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called…
• n. (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword…
• n. (heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
• n. (religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
• n. (obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal…