Definition of Second

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Second

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

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.

Aid; assistance; help.

An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

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.

In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

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.

Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

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Second Quotations

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Vince Lombardi

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil Gibran

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Second Translations

second in Afrikaans is tweede
second in Danish is anden, sekund
second in Dutch is tweede
second in Finnish is sekunti, toinen
second in German is zweiten, zweite, zweite, zweiter, zweites
second in Italian is secondo
second in Latin is secundus
second in Norwegian is andre
second in Portuguese is em segundo
second in Spanish is segundo
second in Swedish is sekund, andra

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