the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
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"
coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment"
a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)