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