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second

The English word “second” has 29 meanings listed here.

  1. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
  2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
  3. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
  4. After the first; at the second rank.
  5. After the first occurrence but before the third.
  6. Something that is number two in a series.
  7. Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
  8. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
  9. A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
  10. An additional helping of food.
  11. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
  12. 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).
  13. Second base.
  14. 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.
  15. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
  16. A second-class honours degree.
  17. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
  18. To follow in the next place; to succeed.
  19. To climb after a lead climber.
  20. A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines 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.
  21. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
  22. A short, indeterminate amount of time.
  23. To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
  24. To assist or support; to back.
  25. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
  26. To accompany by singing as the second performer.
  27. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
  28. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
  29. Aid; assistance; help.
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