third
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1. 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) (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | position, |
| definition | : | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player (noun.act) |
| member meronym | : | baseball team, |
| definition | : | a team that plays baseball (noun.group) |
2. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball (noun.artifact)
3. the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | gear, gear mechanism, |
| definition | : | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar, |
| definition | : | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine (noun.artifact) |
4. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | interval, musical interval, |
| definition | : | the difference in pitch between two notes (noun.communication) |
5. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole (noun.quantity)
| hypernym | : | common fraction, simple fraction, |
| definition | : | the quotient of two integers (noun.quantity) |
6. following the second position in an ordering or series (noun.linkdef)
| hypernym | : | rank, |
| definition | : | relative status (noun.state) |
7. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position (adj.all)
| similar | : | ordinal, |
| definition | : | being or denoting a numerical order in a series (adj.all) |
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