Second

Definition:

  • (a.) Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.
  • (a.) Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
  • (a.) Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Aid; assistance; help.
  • (n.) An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
  • (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.
  • (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.
  • (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.
  • (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.
  • (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

Compare second with other words:

next vs. second

second vs. secund

second vs. secondo

kilogram vs. second

second vs. unseconded

aftergame vs. second

aftercrop vs. second

instant vs. second

loan vs. second

second vs. secondarily

frist vs. second

second vs. then

moment vs. second

second vs. tic

poundal vs. second

second vs. seconder

second vs. squared

second vs. vice

clock vs. second

second vs. sophomore

remarry vs. second

mil vs. second

latter vs. second

appoint vs. second

second vs. secondly

content vs. second

retry vs. second

reiterate vs. second

hearse vs. second

octave vs. second

second vs. tierce

centisecond vs. second

second vs. weber

second vs. watt

joule vs. second

coulomb vs. second

atom vs. second

ordinal vs. second

henry vs. second

meter vs. second

long vs. second

jerk vs. second

both vs. second

other vs. second

second vs. third

after vs. second

accent vs. second

current vs. second

rapture vs. second

jiffy vs. second

contestant vs. second

match vs. second

attendant vs. second

second vs. succeed

agree vs. second

quorum vs. second

assist vs. second

second vs. support

back vs. second

degree vs. second

arcsecond vs. second

indeterminate vs. second

caesium vs. second

angle vs. second

second vs. sixtieth

second vs. time

arcsec vs. second

radiation vs. second

duel vs. second

second vs. secondary

sec vs. second

first vs. second

second vs. two

abet vs. second

minute vs. second

blackguard vs. second