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I forgot), and the third is actually from a computer manual, as I recall seeing "Insert the disk into the drive and turn the computer on" before it flashed offscreen.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number three in a series.
  2. noun One of three equal parts.
  3. noun Music An interval of three degrees in a diatonic scale.
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  • On general principles, it's pretty good doctrine that two's a company and three's a crowd, except when the third is a cook. —  Old Gorgon Graham
  • He wended his way through the palace until he reached the wing occupied by Mina and her Knights. —  Dragons Of A Lost Star
  • A very stormy day, but braving the blast, I visited two or three friends, to have a last interview with them; in one case to invite a person to join the people of God; in another, to urge the necessity of family-prayer; a third was a young person apparently in dying circumstances, and a fourth was a quaker friend, whose disinterested friendship endears her to me. — —  Religion in Earnest
  • I forgot), and the third is actually from a computer manual, as I recall seeing "Insert the disk into the drive and turn the computer on" before it flashed offscreen. —  The Movie Goofs List Version 2.0 by Murray Chapman
  • This third is here. —  Dalamar the Dark
 

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  1. Middle English thridde, therdde, third, from Old English thridda; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. thrid; from Middle English thirde, thyrde, thryd, thridde, thredde, from Anglo-Saxon thridda (Old Northumbrian thirda, thirdda) = Old Saxon thriddio = Dutch derde = Middle Low German dridde, drudde, Low German drudde = Old High German dritto, Middle High German G. dritte = Icelandic thridhi, thridhja = Swedish Danish tredie = Gothic (Moesogothic) thridja = Welsh tryde = Gaelic treas = Latin tertius (later Italian terzo = Spanish tercio = Portuguese terço = Old French tiers, ters, French tiers, later English tierce, terce) = Greek τρίτος (with slightly different suffix) = Sanskrit tritīya, third; with ordinal formative -th later -d (see -th), from the cardinal, Anglo-Saxon threó, etc., three: see three. From the L. form are ult. English terce, tercel, tierce, etc., tertian, tertiary, etc.
  2. from third, a.
  3. A transposed form of thread, thrid.
 

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