What's the difference between third and thirdly?

Third


Definition:

  • (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
  • (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
  • (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
  • (4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
  • (7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
  • (10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
  • (11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
  • (12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
  • (13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
  • (14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
  • (18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
  • (19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.

Thirdly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In the third place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
  • (4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
  • (7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
  • (10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
  • (11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
  • (12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
  • (13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
  • (14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
  • (18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
  • (19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.

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