Chapter and Third

noun

• A subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled.
  • usage: "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"
• Any distinct period in history or in a person's life.
  • usage: "the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history"; "the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship"
• A local branch of some fraternity or association.
  • usage: "he joined the Atlanta chapter"
• An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church.
• A series of related events forming an episode.
  • usage: "a chapter of disasters"

• (n.) A location or compartment.
• (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
• (n.) A chapter house.
• (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
• (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
• (n.) An assembly of monks or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
• (v.t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
• (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
• (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
• (n.) A bishop's council.
• (v.t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
• (n.) A decretal epistle.

Chapter is the Bankruptcy Code is organized into Chapters. Except for Chapter 12, the Chapters of the present code are all odd-numbered and are enumerated with Arabic numerals. (Before the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, the Chapters were numbered with Roman numerals.) Chapters 1, 3, and 5 cover matters of general application. Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13 concern, respectively: liquidation (business or non-business); municipality bankruptcy; business reorganization; family farm debt adjustment; and wage-earner or personal (i. E. Non-business) reorganization.

noun

• One of three equal parts of a divisible whole.
  • usage: "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
  • synonyms: one-third, tierce
• 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. )
  • usage: "he is playing third"
  • synonyms: third base
• Following the second position in an ordering or series.
  • usage: "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"
• The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it.
  • usage: "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
• The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle.
  • usage: "you shouldn't try to start in third gear"
  • synonyms: third gear
• The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball.
  • usage: "he was cut down on a close play at third"
  • synonyms: third base

adjective

• Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
  • synonyms: 3rd, tertiary

adverb

• In the third place.
  • usage: "third we must consider unemployment"
  • synonyms: thirdly

• (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
• (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
• (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
• (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
• (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.