second
- Adjective. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Adjective. Number-two; following immediately after the first one.
- Adjective. That which comes after the first. .
- Noun. (context, usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Noun. (context, usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- Noun. Another chance to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.).
- Noun. (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).
- Noun. The second gear of an engine.
- Noun. (baseball) Second base.
- Noun. (historical) A dueller's assistant.
- Noun. 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; one-sixtieth of a minute.
- Noun. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Noun. A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- Verb. (transitive, UK) Transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- Verb. (transitive) To assist.
- Verb. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.
- Noun. The attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match, who must be ready to take over if the contestant drops out. In the case of a duel, the seconds may also fight each other at 90° to the other contestants.
- Noun. One who agrees in addition, or such a motion, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
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