second
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
second (not comparable)
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- He lives on Second Street.
- The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".
- You take the first one, and I'll have the second.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 4, scene 1]:
- A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
- Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
- French: deuxième, second, (in names of monarchs and popes) deux
- German: zweite
- Italian: secondo
- Portuguese: segundo
- Russian: второ́й
- Spanish: segundo
- French: deuxième, second
- German: zweite
- Italian: secondo
- Portuguese: segundo
- Russian: второ́й
- Spanish: segundo
second (not comparable)
- (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
- Saturn is the second largest planet.
- After the first occurrence but before the third.
- He is batting second today.
- Portuguese: segundo
second (plural seconds)
- Something that is number two in a series.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- (usually, in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.
- (usually, in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- The second gear of an engine.
- (baseball) Second base.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- Synonyms: seconder
- 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book
- Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
- (music) secundal (adj.)
- Portuguese: segundo
- Portuguese: segundo
- German: zweite Wahl
- Portuguese: artigo de segunda
- French: rab
- German: Nachschlag
- Russian: добавка
- German: Sekunde
- Russian: секу́нда
second (seconds, present participle seconding; past and past participle seconded)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.)
- I second the motion.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
second (plural seconds)
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- I'll be there in a second.
- (unit of angle) second of arc, arcsecond
- (short, indeterminate amount of time) (colloquial) sec
- Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
- French: seconde, seconde d'angle
- German: Sekunde
- Italian: secondo
- Portuguese: segundo
- Russian: секу́нда
- Spanish: segundo
- French: seconde, instant
- German: Sekunde, Augenblick, Moment
- Italian: secondo, attimo, momento
- Portuguese: instante, momento, segundo
- Russian: секу́нда
- Spanish: momento
- Transfer temporarily
- enPR: səkŏnd', IPA: /səˈkɒnd/
- enPR: sĕʹkənd, IPA: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
- (America) IPA: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/, /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
second (seconds, present participle seconding; past and past participle seconded)
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 4, scene 1]:
- We have supplies to second our attempt.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (
please specify ), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗:
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- I second the motion.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- Italian: distaccare, comandare
- Russian: командирова́ть
- French: soutenir
- German: unterstützen
- Spanish: apoyar, secundar
- German: beipflichten, sekundieren (rare)
- Italian: assecondare, secondare, appoggiare, sostenere
- Portuguese: apoiar, secundar
- Russian: подде́рживать
- Spanish: secundar
second (plural seconds)
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.
- (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.
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