second
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
climbing
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“to follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
Inflected forms:
form: 2nd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2ⁿᵈ
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2ᵈ
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: IInd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: II
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: II.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2nd
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 2ⁿᵈ
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 2d
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 2ᵈ
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: IInd
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: II
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: II.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: seconds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 2nd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 2ⁿᵈ
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 2d
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 2ᵈ
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: IInd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: II
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: II.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: seconds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seconding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seconded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seconded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: 2nd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 2ⁿᵈ
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 2d
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 2ᵈ
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: IInd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: II
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: II.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He lives on Second Street.
The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".
He became the second player to hit 50000 runs for his county.
You take the first one, and I'll have the second.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers.
For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
gloss: Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His job is second priority, because his family is the most important thing in his life.
May the day when we become the second people upon earth […] be the day of our utter extirpation!
gloss: Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
A Daniel ſtill ſay I, a ſecond Daniel,[…]
gloss: After the first; at the second rank.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
gloss: After the first occurrence but before the third.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is batting second today.
gloss: Something that is number two in a series.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
pos: noun
gloss: The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
pos: noun
gloss: A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.
gloss: An additional helping of food.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.
gloss: A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: The second gear of an engine.
pos: noun
gloss: Second base.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A Cub Scout appointed to assist a sixer.
pos: noun
examples: Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
gloss: A second-class honours degree.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: [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.
gloss: To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I second the motion.
Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
gloss: To follow in the next place; to succeed.
pos: verb
examples: In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
Sin is usually seconded with sin.
gloss: To climb after a lead climber.
pos: verb
Synonyms: other
Related words: secundal
Derived words: cosmetic second
diminished second
factory second
major second
minor second
sloppy seconds
this second
secondable
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