'Second' definitions:
Definition of 'second'
From: WordNet
adverb
In the second place; "second, we must consider the economy" [syn: second, secondly]
adjective
Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude [syn: second, 2nd, 2d]
adjective
A part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first; "second flute"; "the second violins" [ant: first]
noun
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: second, sec, s]
noun
An indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment, mo, minute, second, bit]
noun
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield [syn: second base, second]
noun
A particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant]
noun
Following the first in an ordering or series; "he came in a close second"
noun
A 60th part of a minute of arc; "the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here" [syn: second, arcsecond]
noun
The official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
noun
A speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, secondment, endorsement, indorsement]
noun
The gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; "he had to shift down into second to make the hill" [syn: second gear, second]
noun
Merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name [syn: irregular, second]
verb
Give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse]
verb
Transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment; "The officer was seconded for duty overseas"
Definition of 'Second'
From: GCIDE
- Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]
- 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other. [1913 Webster]
- And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. [1913 Webster]
- May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. [1913 Webster]
- A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Second Adventist. See Adventist.
- Second cousin, the child of a cousin.
- Second-cut file. See under File.
- Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also {middle ground}, or middle distance. [R.]
- Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.
- Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.
- Second intention. See under Intention.
- Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.
- Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. [1913 Webster]
- On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Second'
From: GCIDE
- Second \Sec"ond\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power. [1913 Webster]
- Man An angel's second, nor his second long. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel. [1913 Webster]
- Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Aid; assistance; help. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Give second, and my love Is everlasting thine. --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour. [1913 Webster]
- 5. [F. seconde. See Second, a.] The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place. [1913 Webster]
- 6. In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mus.) (a) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it. (b) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Parliamentary Procedure) A motion in support of another motion which has been moved in a deliberative body; a motion without a second dies without discussion. [PJC]
- Second hand, the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Second'
From: GCIDE
- Second \Sec"ond\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seconding.] [Cf. F. seconder, L. secundare, from secundus. See Second, a.]
- 1. To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- Sin is seconded with sin. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage. [1913 Webster]
- We have supplies to second our attempt. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In human works though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically, (Parliamentary Procedure) to support, as a motion[6] or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Under common parliamentary rules used by many organizations, especially legislative bodies, a motion must be seconded in order to come properly before the deliberative body for discussion. Any motion[6] for which there is no second[8] dies for lack thereof. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'second'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abettor,
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- accept,
- accredit,
- acolyte,
- adjutant,
- admirer,
- advance,
- advocate,
- affirm,
- aficionado,
- agent,
- aid,
- aide,
- aide-de-camp,
- aider,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambidextrous,
- amen,
- angel,
- annum,
- another,
- apologist,
- approve,
- approve of,
- assign,
- assist,
- assistant,
- attendant,
- authenticate,
- authorize,
- autograph,
- auxiliary,
- B,
- back,
- back up,
- backer,
- best man,
- bifacial,
- bifold,
- biform,
- bilateral,
- binary,
- binate,
- biparous,
- bissextile year,
- bivalent,
- breath,
- buff,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- certify,
- champion,
- coadjutant,
- coadjutor,
- coadjutress,
- coadjutrix,
- common year,
- conduplicate,
- confirm,
- consecutive intervals,
- cosign,
- countersign,
- coup,
- crack,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective,
- defective year,
- defender,
- degree,
- dependence,
- deputy,
- diapason,
- diatessaron,
- diatonic interval,
- diatonic semitone,
- disomatous,
- double,
- double-faced,
- dual,
- duple,
- duplex,
- duplicate,
- encourage,
- encourager,
- endorse,
- endorser,
- enharmonic diesis,
- enharmonic interval,
- espouse,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fan,
- favor,
- favorer,
- fifth,
- fiscal year,
- flash,
- following,
- fortnight,
- fourth,
- friend at court,
- geminate,
- geminated,
- get behind,
- get in behind,
- girl Friday,
- give permission,
- give the go-ahead,
- give the imprimatur,
- give thumbs up,
- go along with,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- half step,
- halftone,
- help,
- helper,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- hour,
- initial,
- instant,
- interval,
- irregular,
- Janus-like,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- later,
- leap year,
- less semitone,
- lieutenant,
- lover,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- Maecenas,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- man Friday,
- man-hour,
- melodic interval,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- month,
- moon,
- move,
- newer,
- next,
- notarize,
- note,
- number two,
- octave,
- OK,
- other,
- parallel octaves,
- paranymph,
- paraprofessional,
- partisan,
- pass,
- pass on,
- pass upon,
- patron,
- patronize,
- permit,
- promote,
- promoter,
- protagonist,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- ratify,
- regular year,
- reliance,
- relocate,
- right hand,
- rubber stamp,
- run interference for,
- sanction,
- say amen to,
- schlock,
- schmatte,
- seal,
- sec,
- second-best,
- secondarily,
- secondary,
- seconder,
- secondly,
- sectary,
- semester,
- semitone,
- servant,
- session,
- seventh,
- shake,
- shift,
- side with,
- sideman,
- sider,
- sidereal year,
- sign,
- sign and seal,
- sixth,
- solar year,
- split second,
- sponsor,
- stalwart,
- stand back of,
- stand behind,
- stand by,
- stand-in,
- standby,
- step,
- stick by,
- stick up for,
- stroke,
- subordinate,
- subscribe to,
- subsequent,
- substitute,
- sun,
- support,
- supporter,
- supporting actor,
- supporting instrumentalist,
- surrogate,
- sustainer,
- swear and affirm,
- swear to,
- sympathizer,
- take sides with,
- term,
- third,
- tick,
- tone,
- transfer,
- trice,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- twin,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twinned,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- two-faced,
- two-level,
- two-ply,
- two-sided,
- two-story,
- twofold,
- undersign,
- understudy,
- underwrite,
- unison interval,
- upholder,
- validate,
- visa,
- vise,
- votary,
- warrant,
- week,
- weekday,
- well-wisher,
- whole step,
- wink,
- year,
- younger
Words containing 'Second'
- Seconded,
- Seconder,
- Seconding,
- Secondly,
- secondment,
- seconds,
- At second hand,
- Major second,
- Second Adventist,
- Second Mesa,
- Second childhood,
- Second cousin,
- Second distance,
- Second estate,
- Second floor,
- Second girl,
- Second hand,
- Second intention,
- Second story,
- Second thought,
- Second thoughts,
- The second death,
- leap second,
- light second,
- parallax second,
- second Lautverschiebung,
- second advent,
- second adventism,
- second balcony,
- second banana,
- second base,
- second baseman,
- second best,
- second class,
- second coming,
- second cousins,
- second crusade,
- second deck,
- second empire,
- second fiddle,
- second gear,
- second growth,
- second half,
- second joint,
- second lieutenant,
- second moment,
- second mortgage,
- second nature,
- second period,
- second person,
- second power,
- second rate,
- second reading,
- second reich,
- second sacker,
- second sight,
- second stomach,
- second string,
- second to none,
- second trimester,
- second wind,
- split second,
- temple the second,
- watt second,
- Independent seconds watch,
- Second Mesa, AZ,
- Second-class,
- Second-rate,
- Second-sight,
- Second-sighted,
- Thirty-second,
- To heal by the second intention,
- To play second fiddle,
- Twelfth-second,
- Union by the second intention,
- ampere-second,
- bits per second,
- corinthians second epistle to the,
- cycle per second,
- euclid's second axiom,
- forty-second,
- gigacycle per second,
- john second epistle of,
- kepler's second law,
- kilocycle per second,
- megacycle per second,
- newton's second law,
- peter second epistle of,
- second battle of ypres,
- second coming of christ,
- second council of constantinople,
- second council of lyons,
- second council of nicaea,
- second cranial nerve,
- second earl grey,
- second earl of chatham,
- second earl of guilford,
- second epistel of john,
- second epistle of peter,
- second epistle to the corinthians,
- second epistle to the thessalonians,
- second epistle to timothy,
- second lateran council,
- second law of motion,
- second law of thermodynamics,
- second marquis of rockingham,
- second vatican council,
- second world war,
- second-best,
- second-guess,
- second-in-command,
- second-rater,
- second-string,
- second-stringer,
- second-year,
- sweep-second,
- timothy second epistle to,
- twenty-second,
- Second-cut file,
- Thirty-second note,
- goods of the second and higher orders,
- million instructions per second,
- newton's second law of motion,
- one-thirty-second,
- second-class scout,
- second-degree burn,
- second-hand speech,
- second-hand store,
- second-place finish,
- thirty-second part,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to the corinthians,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to the thessalonians,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to timothy,
- million floating point operations per second,
- trillion floating point operations per second,
- united society of believers in christ's second appearing