Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SECOND

SECOND

Definitions of SECOND

Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
After the first occurrence but before the third.
Something that is number two in a series.
Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
The second gear of an engine.
A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined 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.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
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.
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
(with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
(usually, in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
(usually, in the plural) An additional helping of food.
(music) 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).
(baseball) Second base.
(informal) A second-class honours degree.
(transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
(climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
(informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
(transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
(transitive) To assist or support; to back.
(transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
(transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
(obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.