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second
  1. One that is number two in a series.
  2. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
  3. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
  4. (plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
  5. (plural) An additional helping of food.
  6. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
  7. (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).
  8. The second gear of an engine.
  9. (baseball) Second base.
  10. 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.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “It won't happen overnight. In fact, it will happen in a second!”
      “You can find some real bargains at the local shop which specializes in the sale of seconds.”
      “Please, Sir, I want seconds.”
secondary
  1. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  2. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  3. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
  4. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar
  5. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
  6. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
  7. (astronomy) A satellite.
  8. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.
  9. Synonyms:
second
  1. 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.
  2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
  3. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It won't happen overnight. In fact, it will happen in a second!”
      “You can find some real bargains at the local shop which specializes in the sale of seconds.”
      “Please, Sir, I want seconds.”
second
  1. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
  2. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
  3. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It won't happen overnight. In fact, it will happen in a second!”
      “You can find some real bargains at the local shop which specializes in the sale of seconds.”
      “Please, Sir, I want seconds.”
secondment
  1. the process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She is also on secondment to the Cabinet Office, advising on how the civil service can improve its communications skills.”
      “The present incumbent of this numbered post is on secondment to St Mark's and has held his current appointment for 10 years.”
      “Ordinarily, either party giving notice one month in advance may terminate an officer's period of secondment.”
seconder
  1. The person who makes a second to a motion in any formal procedure, such as a parliamentary procedure.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The failure of the motion came as a bitter blow to Mr Phelan particularly as it did not even get a seconder.”
      “To register as a candidate, nominees need have their registration form signed by a proposer, a seconder and another eight ascenters.”
      “In the Tory party, a candidate requires just a proposer and a seconder, which is a better and more open system.”
secondborn
  1. The second child to be born to a parent or family.
secondee
  1. A person who is transferred temporarily to alternative employment, or seconded.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The secondee is helping the Alliance attract investors and increasing access to carbon finance for clean cooking enterprises.”
      “The introduction of a trade union secondee this year to give additional advice to our employed members is an example of this.”
secondness
  1. The quality of being or coming second.
secondariness
  1. The state of being secondary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Wakefield's ostensibly self-subversive slippage into blandness, secondariness and silence.”
      “It does remain hard to shake the impression of a certain secondariness about A Test of Poetry, independent of its conception date.”
      “The Secondariness of Virgilian Epic and its Unprecedented Originality.”
seconds
secondborns
  1. plural of secondborn
secondments
  1. plural of secondment
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Before these secondments, he spent four years as a detective at Sydney's Waverley station, working drugs and vice.”
      “The Golden Jubilee Trust awards 50 paid secondments a year, on a full or part-time basis, for a maximum of six months.”
      “The John Lewis Partnership arranges secondments as part of the Golden Jubilee Trust, an initiative set up to help registered charities.”
secondaries
  1. plural of secondary
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The white extends out the wings, but the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers are mottled black-and-white.”
      “About a third of Kent secondaries are grammar schools, another third secondary moderns and the rest comprehensives.”
      “This research supported the theory of the existence of three primary colors and their complementary secondaries.”
secondees
  1. plural of secondee
seconders
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