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Second

adjective

Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude. Synonyms: 2d, 2nd.

A part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first. "The second violins"

noun

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites. Synonyms: s, sec.

An indefinitely short time. Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, moment. "In a mo" , "It only takes a minute" , "In just a bit"

The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield. Synonym: second base.

A particular point in time. Synonyms: instant, minute, moment.

Following the first in an ordering or series.

A 60th part of a minute of arc. Synonym: arcsecond.

The official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match.

A speech seconding a motion. Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement, secondment.

The gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle. Synonym: second gear.

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Merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name. Synonym: irregular.

verb

(past & past part. seconded; pres. part. seconding)

Give support or one's approval to. Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse. "I can't back this plan" , "Endorse a new project"

Transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment.

adverb

In the second place. Synonym: secondly.

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"Second" Quotes from Famous Books

... nine irregular adjectives of the first and second declensions which have a peculiar termination in the genitive and dative singular ...

— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

... oilcloth window curtain, we simply took our lives into our own hands. To prevent bloodshed I removed up stairs and took up quarters with the untitled plebeians in one of the fourteen white pine cot-bedsteads that stood in two long ranks in the one sole room of which the second story consisted. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Varney, upon a second examination, made very little mystery either of the crime or of its motives—-alleging, as a reason for his frankness, that though much of what he confessed could only have attached to him by suspicion, yet such ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... before was Countesse of Kent, and wife vnto sir Thomas Holland: and whose name, (as Polidore sayth) was Iane, daughter to Edmond Earle of Kent, of whom the same Prince Edward begat Edward that died in his childish yeres, and Richard that afterwards was king of England the second of that name, and for that she was kin to him, was deuorced: whose sayde father maried Philip, daughter to the earle of Henault, and had by her VII. sonnes: and AElips for the name of the sayde Countesse, beinge none suche amonges our vulgare termes, but Frosard remembreth her ...

— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter

... clouds of dust raised by the wheels of the wagons and the hoofs of the horses Jean beheld, not the second mounted battery of the 9th Regiment of artillery, but the distinct images of two Americans with black eyes and golden hair; and, at the moment when he listened respectfully to the well-merited lecture from his Captain, he was in the act of saying ...

— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy

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