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noun (plural: thirds)
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the third position.
- Jones came in .
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- He ate a of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- (not used in the plural) The third gear of an engine.
- Now put it into .
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- They sing in thirds.
- (baseball) third base
- The play ended with Jones standing on .
adjective
- The ordinal number, ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- The tree from the left is my favorite.
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noun
- The front part of the neck.
- The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the .
- The gullet or windpipe.
- As I swallowed I felt something strange in my .
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The water leaked out from the of the bottle.
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noun
- A slender metal rod used to support or reinforce part of a structure
- Either of a pair of rods that link the steering mechanism to the front wheel or axle of some vehicles
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noun
- Someone or something which times.
- Especially, a device used to measure the amount of time something takes, or a device that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time.
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verb
- (past of, tire)
adjective
- In need of some rest or sleep.
- fed up, Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
- I'm of this
- overused, Overused, cliché.
- a song
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adjective - situated or lying across; [crosswide side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction
Antonym: longitudinal
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noun
- The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.
- torso, Torso.
- The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.
- (context, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- (context, US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
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noun
- turbocharger
- turbojet
- As a prefix, accelerated, more robust, souped-up
- Borland"s Turbo Pascal compiles faster than Microsoft"s.
(see, turbò)
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verb to turbocharge
- to increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the exhaust air.
- to make faster, more powerful.
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