Meaning of second | Babel Free

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1. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
2. A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines 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.
3. second (after the first)
4. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two
5. Something that is number two in a series.
6. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
7. second (unit of time)
8. Brit. to transfer (an officer, official, or the like) temporarily to another post.
9. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
10. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior
11. Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
12. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
13. Aid; assistance; help.
    obsolete
14. second (short amount of time)
15. A unit of time equal to 1⁄60 minute.
16. A short, indeterminate amount of time.
    informal
17. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another
18. A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
    plural-normally
19. assistant
20. One-twelfth of a prime, i.e., one square inch.
21. After the first; at the second rank
22. An additional helping of food.
    plural-normally
23. first-person singular present indicative of segundar
24. A very brief time:crack, flash, instant, minute, moment, trice, twinkle, twinkling, wink.
25. After the first occurrence but before the third
26. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
27. A person who holds a position auxiliary to another and assumes some of the superior's responsibilities:adjutant, aide, assistant, auxiliary, coadjutant, coadjutor, deputy, helper, lieutenant.
28. 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).
29. next after the first. He came second in the race. tweede الثّاني на второ място segundo jako druhý zweit nummer to μετά τον πρώτο segundo teiseks دومي toisena deuxièmeשני drugo, na drugom mjestu második nomor dua annar secondo ２番目に 둘째 번의 antras otrais; otrā vietā kedua tweedesom nummer todrugi دوهمه segundo al doilea вторым ako druhý drugi drugi tvåa ได้ที่สอง ikinci 屈居第二 другим номером پہلے کے بعد اگلا vị trí thứ hai 居第二位
30. The second gear of an engine.
31. to agree with (something said by a previous speaker), especially to do so formally. He proposed the motion and I seconded it. sekondeer يُوافِق подкрепям apoiar podpořit unterstützen støtte υποστηρίζω, συμφωνώ επίσημα apoyar, secundar toetama تاييد كردن kannattaa appuyer לִתמוֹך podupirati, podržavati támogat mendukung styðja appoggiare 賛成する 지지하다 pritarti, paremti atbalstīt sokong steunenstøttepoprzeć تایدول apoiar a spri­jini поддерживать podporiť podpreti podržati understödja, ansluta sig t...
    especially
32. Second base.
33. a secondary school. sekondêre skool ثانَوي средно училище escola secundária škola druhého stupně, střední höhere Schule folkeskolens øverste trin; skole for 12-18-årige γυμνάσιο, λύκειο, δευτεροβάθμιας εκαπιδευσης escuela de secundaria keskkool متوسطه keskiasteen oppilaitos secondaire בֵית סֵפֶר תִיכוֹן srednja škola középiskola sekolah menengah framhaldsskóli (scuola di secondo grado) 中等学校 중등학교의 vidurinė mokykla vidusskola menengah middelbare school ungdomsskole/videregående skole szkoła śre...
34. 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.
35. a person who seconds. sekondant مُساعِد، مُعاوِن секундант apoiante podporovatel der Sekundant støtte υποστηρικτής πρότασης persona que apoya una moción poolehoidja پشتيبان kannattaja personne qui appuie une motion תוֹמֵך समर्थक, अनुमोदक podupirač, zagovaratelj támogató pendukung stuðningsmaður (chi appoggia una mozione) 賛同者 후원자 asmuo, remiantis pasiūlymą atbalstītājs penyokong steuner van een motie en som støtter et forslag popierający wniosek ساتل، ملاتړ (حمايه) كول: تكيه كول، درول، زغمل، ګ...
36. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
37. in the second place. I have two reasons for not buying the house – firstly, it's too big, and secondly it's too far from town. tweedens ثانيا второ em segundo lugar za druhé zweitens for det andet δεύτερονen segundo lugar teiseks ثانيا toiseksi deuxièmementשנית drugo, nadalje másodszor kedua í öðru lagi in secondo luogo ２番目に 둘째 antra otrkārt keduanya ten tweedefor det andrepo drugie دويم، دويم وار em segundo lugar în al doilea rând во-вторых po druhé drugič drugo för det andra ในประการที่สอง ...
38. A second-class honours degree.
    informal

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Examples

“They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.”

“That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.”

“The policeman smiled, his eyes twinkling. "Now if you'll follow me, I'll escort you to the Victoria." "Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..." That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second.”

“Smoky Joe ran against a Houston horse named Cherokee Chief. “Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second.””

“I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance ... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second.”

“Since he [i.e., Abraham Lincoln] had very long arms, he chose cavalry broadswords and took lessons in sword fighting from a West Point graduate; and, on the appointed day, he and [James] Shields met on a sandbar in the Mississippi River, prepared to fight to the death; but, at the last minute, their seconds interrupted and stopped the duel.”

“Joint enterprise law dates back to at least the 16th century. It was later developed to deter duelling by making seconds and doctors liable for murder.”

“Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.”

“[Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.”

“Holonyms: decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond”

“Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond”

“For this reason, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that spinach be cooked at 160º for 15 seconds, which kills potentially fatal bacteria.”

“I'll be there in a second.”

“Exposure of aluminum to the air causes a near instantaneous oxide. So rapid is the oxidation that it is safe to say you never see aluminum that has no oxide on its surface... The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed.”

“The dogs however parted, and after a little handling by their seconds immediately returned to the charge”

“They find ways to take advice from their seconds or they arrange the schedule against you as they did to me in the finals of the 1962 World Tournament”

“Vaguely reminiscent of the use of "seconds" among duelists, this provision required that the two hostile nations stop threatening each other and, instead, to let two appointed countries (their "seconds") try and solve their difficulties”

“Theodore's practice is described as a model for the housemasters and their seconds”

“If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.”

“Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.”

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