three

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/θɹiː/

noun 5num 2

Collocations

ADJ.

drunk, finished, good, large, larger, open, spare, sudden

The three large windows in the living room let in plenty of natural light.

VERB + THREE

bank, cake, continued, gains, go, haven't, house, leaves

I haven't been to the bank three times in one week before.

THREE + NOUN

anything, braces, cars, coffee, cups, days, dogs, errors

I drank three cups of coffee before noon and couldn't sleep that night.

PREP.

among, in, into, on, on, out, than, up

The children divided the candy among the three of them equally.

ADV.

away

The old barn was three miles away from the nearest town.

Definitions

num

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.

Describing a set or group with three elements.

noun

The digit/figure 3.

In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.

Anything measuring three units, as length.

Put all the threes in a separate container.

A person who is three years old.

All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.

The playing card featuring three pips.

Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips

trey

noun — the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

iii
trio
threesome
tierce
leash
troika
triad

adjective — being one more than two

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

three sheets to the wind

Unsteady from drink.

That late in the evening, he was three sheets to the wind and had long since stopped making sense.

three skips of a louse

The worth of some trifling or insignificant matter; a whit or jot of value.

’Tis not that I value the money three skips of a louse: But the thing I stand upon is the credit of the house.

me three

Used to express agreement, after someone has already said "me too." Can be continued as "me four," "me five," and so on.

“...Come if you can—he’d like that a lot.” / “Me, too.” / “Me, three.” She gave a girlish giggle and unlocked her door.

three guys in a garage

A small, agile group of startup innovators with a big idea, passion, and modest resources.

"By next year, three guys in a garage will be able to build a Layer 3 terabit backbone router by buying merchant silicon and writing software, and the box will be as fast and as ch

clogs to clogs in three generations

Wealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third (grandchild's) generation.

Example Bank

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

Wiktionary

There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.

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Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two… Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”? Three! Who said anything about “go”?

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In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.

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Put all the threes in a separate container.

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All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.

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