What's the difference between second and sixtieth?

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
  • (2) Melanoma is the second most common cancer, after testicular cancer, in males in the U.S. Navy.
  • (3) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (4) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (5) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
  • (6) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
  • (7) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
  • (8) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
  • (9) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (10) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (11) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (12) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (13) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
  • (14) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
  • (15) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (16) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (17) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (18) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (19) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
  • (20) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.

Sixtieth


Definition:

  • (a.) Next in order after the fifty-ninth.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
  • (n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until the sixtieth day of gestation, liver copper was significantly increased in copper-stressed littermates, although paradoxically at birth, concentrations were significantly lower.
  • (2) All the animals were killed on the sixtieth day and chromosomal aberrations were screened in spermatocytes at meiotic metaphase I.
  • (3) Broxaterol elicited a prompt and marked bronchodilating effect (increase in forced expiratory volume in one second and specific conductance), maintained at least up to the sixtieth minute.
  • (4) For isolated samples, brown was almost never seen, being most often replaced by orange; a white border less than one-sixtieth the width of the color samples was sufficient to restore its perception in an otherwise dark field.
  • (5) In the thirtieth, sixtieth or ninetieth minute after the injection, the animals were killed and the deoxyribonuclein acid content in 100 mg of fresh tissue of testes, spleen and liver, was measured.
  • (6) This is the sixtieth case reported in the literature.
  • (7) The history of The Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence is traced from its beginning (1929) as The Committee on Drug Addiction to 1989, its sixtieth anniversary.
  • (8) Oral infection was followed by the occurrence of antibody titres, between the tenth day from infection and the sixtieth day, when the experiment was disrupted.
  • (9) On the sixtieth day, 14 patients (46%) showed clinical improvement, nine were stable and arterial occlusive disease worsened in seven patients.
  • (10) A proliferating population of human foreskin keratinocytes (presently in the sixtieth passage) has been obtained after transfection with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA.
  • (11) In detail the arterial oxygen partial pressure decreased within the first 30 minutes after the endotoxin injection and normalized itself by the sixtieth minute, afterwards it remained stationary.
  • (12) (iii) Hydrogen peroxide production and oxygen uptake were induced by ammonium chloride, a proton conductor that can permeate through thylakoid membranes, but whole superoxide in the bulk solution was oxidized back to molecular oxygen by cytochrome c. The effective concentration of ammonium chloride decreased to one-sixtieth of the original, when an ammonium ion ionophore, nonactin, was added.
  • (13) Despite the fact that the microbiological identification of Y. enterocolitica 03 was successfully carried out by virtually all the microbiological laboratories of the Hygienic Service, reported cases of yersiniosis account for only one sixtieth part of alimentary infections.
  • (14) Exchange activity in plasma membrane vesicles is only a sixtieth of the expected value, because the vesicles have approx.
  • (15) The mean values were not significantly different in the two sexes until the sixtieth minute but were significantly higher (P less than 0.05) in the female thereafter.
  • (16) They were 6.7, 7.6, 10.2, and 12.4 mm Hg on the fortieth, sixtieth, eightieth, and ninetieth postoperative day, respectively, in the animal surviving for 99 days.
  • (17) It has also been pointed out that these agents produce a strong stimulative effect on the average daily weight gain of calves up to the sixtieth day following treatment.
  • (18) Mean effective dose values were calculated for chloroquine, sulfamethoxydiazine, and pyrimethamine against blood-induced P. berghei infection, and when a combination of the three drugs was administered therapeutically in the ratio given above, only one-tenth as much chloroquine, one-thirtieth as much sulfamethoxydiazine, and one-sixtieth as much pyrimethamine were needed to cure 50% of murine infections as was needed for each drug alone.
  • (19) The magnitude and direction of the ground reaction forces and the locus of the center of pressure were recorded every one-sixtieth of a second during free-speed ambulation.
  • (20) Substitution of a hydroxyl group for the alpha-amino group of puromycin results in an active analogue with about one-sixtieth the affinity of puromycin in the reaction.

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