three
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Translingual
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| Signal flag for the digit 3 |
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
three
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 3.
- Synonym: terrathree (ITU/IMO)
| code | Alfa | Bravo | Charlie | Delta | Echo | Foxtrot | Golf | Hotel | India | Juliett | Kilo | Lima | Mike |
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| November | Oscar | Papa | Quebec | Romeo | Sierra | Tango | Uniform | Victor | Whiskey | Xray | Yankee | Zulu | |
| zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) | hundred | thousand | decimal |
| ICAO/NATO | zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) |
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| ITU/IMO | nadazero | unaone | bissotwo | terrathree | kartefour | pantafive | soxisix | setteseven | oktoeight | novenine |
References
- ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
English
| 30 | ||
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| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Group collective: trio, threesome Multipart collective: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Latinate fractional prefix: trient- Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
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| *tréyes |
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: thrē IPA(key): /θɹiː/, , ,
- (UK, th-fronting) enPR: frē IPA(key): /fɹiː/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /θɹiː/, ,
- (General American) enPR: thrē IPA(key): /θɹiː/, , ,
Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: tree (with th-stopping), free (with th-fronting)
- Rhymes: -iː
Numeral
three
- A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- 2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
- 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”?
- 2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:
- Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.
- Describing a set or group with three elements.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
cardinal number 3
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describing set or group with three components
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See also
Noun
three (plural threes)
- The digit/figure 3.
- 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.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- 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.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.
Derived terms
- bad things come in threes
- big three
- clogs to clogs in three generations
- common three-ring
- couple-three
- couple three
- Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
- fish and company stink after three days
- good things come in threes
- grade three
- in three days
- less than three
- logo three
- match-three game
- meat and three
- me three
- northern three-toed jerboa
- number three
- one-two-three
- page three girl
- page-three girl
- phony as a three-dollar bill
- purple three-awn grass
- rising three
- rule of three
- shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations
- six and two threes
- Tate's three-striped dasyure
- thirteen
- Three Amigos
- three-and-out
- threeawn
- three-bagger
- three-ball
- three-banded courser
- three-banded grasshopper
- three-banded warbler
- three body problem
- three-bottle man
- Three Bridges
- three card brag
- three-card monte
- three-card trick
- three-card trickster
- three-center two-electron bond
- three cheers
- Three Cocks
- three-cornered
- three-cornered jack
- Three Crosses
- three-cueing
- three day eventing
- three-day fever
- three-day measles
- three days ago
- three day sickness
- three-day sickness
- three-decker
- three-dimensional
- three-dimensionality
- three-dimensionally
- three dog night
- three-dog night
- three eighths
- three-eighths
- three-fifths
- three fifths
- threefin
- three-finger salute
- three fires
- Threefish
- three-fisted
- threefold
- three-forked
- three fourths
- three-fourths
- three fries short of a Happy Meal
- three Fs
- three green
- three G's
- three guys in a garage
- three halfpence
- three halfpennies
- three-headed
- three-high
- three-horned
- three hots and a cot
- three hundred
- three-hundredth
- three-in-hand
- three-in-oneness
- threeish
- three kings' cake
- three L
- three-legged
- three-legged race
- three-line whip
- threeling
- three-lips
- three marks of existence
- three-martini lunch
- three-men-in-a-boat
- three-milk cake
- three-minute warning
- three musketeers
- threenager
- three-name
- threeness
- Threeness
- Three Oaks
- three o'clock
- three-of-a-kind
- three of a kind
- three-on-the-tree
- three-parent
- three-party system
- three-peat
- threepeat
- threepence
- threepenny
- three per cents
- three-phase
- three-piece suit
- three-piece suite
- three-pile
- three-pipe problem
- threeplex
- three-ply
- three-point landing
- three-point line
- three-point shot
- three-point turn
- three poisons
- three-pronged
- three-quarter
- three-quarter back
- three-quarter bathroom
- three-quarter brother
- three quarters
- three-quarters
- three-quarter sibling
- three-quarter sister
- three-quarter time
- three-quarter-time
- three quartertime
- three quarter-time
- three-quartertime
- three quarter time
- threequel
- three-revert rule
- three-ring
- three-ring circus
- three ring circus
- Three Rivers
- three Rs
- three R's
- threescore
- three score and fifth
- three score and ten
- three-second rule
- three seconds rule
- three-sheet
- three sheets
- three sheets in the wind
- three sheets to the wind
- threeside
- threesies
- three sisters
- three skips of a louse
- threesome
- three-space
- three-spined stickleback
- three-spine stickleback
- three-square
- three squares
- three stars
- three-step snake
- three stops short of Dagenham
- three strikes and you're out
- three-strikes law
- three-striped ground squirrel
- three-tap
- threeteen
- threeth
- three thousand
- three-tiered
- three-time loser
- three time's a charm
- three times a charm
- three times three
- three-toed box turtle
- three-toed sloth
- three-toed woodpecker
- three togethers
- three togethers
- three true outcomes
- three-up
- three-vee
- threevee
- threeven
- three-way
- threeway
- three-way girl
- three-way switch
- three-wheel
- three-wheeled
- three-wheeler
- three wise men
- thrinter
- throdd
- throuple
- thruppence
- two's company and three is none
Translations
digit/figure 3
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person who is three years old
playing card
See also
| Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) | ||||||
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Symbols of number three in various numeral systems
- Amharic numerals: ፫
- Arabic numerals: 3
- Assyro-Babylonian numerals: 𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Bengali numerals: ৩
- Chinese numerals: 叄, 三
- Eastern Arabic numerals: ٣
- Gujarati numerals: ૩
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੩
- Hindi numerals: ३
- Kannada numerals: ೩
- Khmer numerals: ៣
- Lao numerals: ໓
- Limbu numerals: ᥉
- Malayalam numerals: ൩
- Mongolian numerals: ᠓
- Myanmar numerals: ၃
- Odia numerals: ୩
- Persian numerals: ۳
- Roman numerals: III
- Tamil numerals: ௩
- Telugu numerals: ౩
- Thai numerals: ๓
- Tibetan numerals: ༣
Anagrams
Manx
Numeral
three
- Alternative spelling of tree.
Scots
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
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| Cardinal : three | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English thre, from Old English þriē, þrī, þreō, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
Numeral
three