(n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
(n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
(n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
(2) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(3) Social and sexual behaviors were analyzed as a function of trio type (sibling or nonsibling) and fate (survivor or nonsurvivor) across 12-h time blocks.
(4) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(5) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(6) We can’t have confidence in a plan that plays fast and loose with global warming and fails to accelerate Europe’s shift to 100% renewable energy.” Wendel Trio, the director of Climate Action Network-Europe, said: “Like all other countries, the EU needs to ensure its policies are coherent with what was agreed in Paris, and needs to substantially increase its targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050.
(7) The report condemns the trio for giving evidence to the committee last month that was "misleading, possibly deliberately".
(8) Deacetylation of the resulting disaccharide derivative, followed by benzylidenation, and condensation with 2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl trichloroacetimidate (10) afforded ethyl 4-O-[3-O-allyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-O-(2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl- alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl]-2,3-di-O-benzyl-1-thio - alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (11).
(9) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
(10) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(11) The club would like to thank the trio for their efforts and a further statement will be made in due course.” Luzon’s exit is the fourth managerial change since the Belgian businessman Roland Duchatelet took over the south London club in January 2014.
(12) Croatia will have one of the most creative central midfield trios in the tournament, with Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic joined by Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic.
(13) So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour .” Ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe website Read more May said he was underwhelmed by the name.
(14) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
(15) They sound like a trio of preppy clothing companies, but in fact they are some of the most powerful players in world finance.
(16) A bill that would allow Congress to review the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran has fallen victim to presidential politics, as a trio of Republican senators seeking the White House have seized on the debate as a messaging opportunity for their foreign policy agendas.
(17) The trio reached an out-of-court settlement with WPP last week and issued a carefully worded public apology over the matter.
(18) The trio have filed appeals, but with no new court date set, Omara says she and Fahmy can no longer wait.
(19) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
(20) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.
Triumvirate
Definition:
(n.) Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.
(n.) A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guardiola has ever-so-slightly strayed away from what has made Barcelona so brilliant now, and there are certainly questions to be asked about how Busquets-Iniesta-Xavi triumvirate has been disrupted by Cesc Fabregas.
(2) A triumvirate of Senators — Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman — are working to craft a climate change bill they think would have a good chance of getting support from Republican as well as Democratic Senators.
(3) What it was not expecting was that the committee had been split over the increase in new electronic money needed to prevent inflation undershooting its 2% target, with the governor, Mervyn King , leading a triumvirate calling for a £75bn boost.
(4) In a 1962 issue of Vogue, Siriol Hugh-Jones, the magazine's former features editor, unleashed a tirade of abuse on that triumvirate of women writers: Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Lessing.
(5) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(6) Care should be provided by a triumvirate of physicians to include and otolaryngologist, a pediatrician, and an anesthesiologist.
(7) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(8) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 5 2007 The word for a set of three reports is trilogy, not triumvirate, as we said in the article below.
(9) That picture, with his wife Mary, is being shown at the National Portrait Gallery with five more of the double portraits, including one of the third of the triumvirate of great British painters, Howard Hodgkin.
(10) Boyd was informed of Drake’s talents by Hutchings, went down to see for himself and at once became the third figure of the Drake-Kirby-Joe Boyd triumvirate which created … well first, of course, there was Five Leaves Left.
(11) As recently as three weeks ago Lord Glasman was pushing the Labour leader to take on a triumvirate of power – Murdoch, the unions and the City of London.
(12) The market-dominating BBC triumvirate of Casualty, Holby City and Doctors are now complemented by period variants Call The Midwife and The Indian Doctor, forged on the same nostalgic anvil as ITV's 60s-set The Royal (which ran for 87 episodes).
(13) This means the new landscape of Stonehenge embodies modern Mammon's triumvirate of commoditisation, gambling and charity, just as it once did Trinitarian ideas of transcendence and immanence.
(14) It was a 10th successive win for Gareth Southgate’s team who , leading 2-1 from the first leg at Molineux, took the sting out of a potentially hostile occasion by dominating possession and playing their way through the impressive midfield triumvirate of Hughes, Jake Forster-Caskey and the deliciously talented Tom Carroll.
(15) US diplomats formed a triumvirate with their UN and Russian counterparts and communicated regularly to address problems as they arose.
(16) Mesut Özil’s starting position was essentially that of a second striker and, although it would be an exaggeration to say the high-pressing style rattled their opponents, it was not until the final moments of the first half that the Messi-Neymar-Suárez triumvirate started to menace.
(17) Quite sensible diplomatic proposals by the African Union, accepted in principle by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, were ignored by the imperial triumvirate, as Africa specialist Alex de Waal reviews.
(18) This election has its fair share of cranks, the obligatory Monster Raving Loonies, a guy campaigning to save local pubs (to give the full triumvirate of endangered pleasures, it's the Beer, Baccy and Crumpets party).
(19) Under Sisi’s rule, a familiar triumvirate of army generals, international capital and western political support has once again coalesced to shield the existing state from further storms.
(20) It is understood Downing Street is being the least intractable government player in the negotiations between the companies and the crucial state triumvirate of the UK, France and Germany.