a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) |
the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle |
the body of members of an organization or group | the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball |
relative status | the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it |
position in a social hierarchy | one of three equal parts of a divisible whole |
| following the second position in an ordering or series |