"second hand" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-second hand1.wav
Etymology: second (ordinal) + hand (“party”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} second hand (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of secondhand Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: secondhand Synonyms: secondhand, second-hand Related terms: at second hand
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Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-second hand1.wav Forms: second hands [plural]
Etymology: second (ordinal) + hand (“party”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} second hand (plural second hands)
  1. An intermediate person or means; intermediary. Categories (topical): Clocks, Timekeeping Derived forms: at second hand
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɛkənd ˌhænd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-second hand2.wav Forms: second hands [plural]
Etymology: second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} second hand (plural second hands)
  1. On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed. Translations (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed): عَقْرَب ثَوَانِي (ʕaqrab ṯawānī) [masculine] (Arabic), секу́ндная стрэ́лка (sjekúndnaja strélka) [feminine] (Belarusian), сэку́ндная стрэ́лка (sekúndnaja strélka) [feminine] (Belarusian), секу́ндна стрелка́ (sekúndna strelká) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 秒針 /秒针 (miǎozhēn) (Chinese Mandarin), secondewijzer [masculine] (Dutch), sekuntiosoitin (Finnish), sekuntiviisari (Finnish), trotteuse [feminine] (French), aiguille des secondes [feminine] (French), Sekundenzeiger [masculine] (German), δείκτης δευτερολέπτων (deíktis defterolépton) [masculine] (Greek), másodpercmutató (Hungarian), jarum detik (Indonesian), 秒針 (byōshin) (alt: びょうしん) (Japanese), 초침 (chochim) (alt: 秒針) (Korean), секунда́рник (sekundárnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), sekondiera [feminine] (Maltese), sekundviser [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sekundvisar [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sekundnik [masculine] (Polish), wskazówka sekundowa [feminine] (Polish), ponteiro dos segundos [masculine] (Portuguese), секу́ндная стре́лка (sekúndnaja strélka) [feminine] (Russian), segundero [masculine] (Spanish), sekundvisare [common-gender] (Swedish), секу́ндна стрі́лка (sekúndna strílka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-second_hand-en-noun-en:hand_showing_seconds Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 43 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 46 40 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 45 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Under certain circumstances there is always a danger in a young man's playing the benefactor towards the other sex, in his own person. A thousand times better do it by a second hand — engage the services of some kind aunt or female cousin.",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "trotteuse"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "aiguille des secondes"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "deíktis defterolépton",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "δείκτης δευτερολέπτων"
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "word": "jarum detik"
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          "roman": "byōshin",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "word": "秒針"
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          "alt": "秒針",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "chochim",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "word": "초침"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "sekundárnik",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "word": "sekondiera"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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          "word": "sekundnik"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "wskazówka sekundowa"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ponteiro dos segundos"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sekúndnaja strélka",
          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "секу́ндная стре́лка"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "segundero"
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      "roman": "chochim",
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      "word": "초침"
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      "roman": "sekundárnik",
      "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "секунда́рник"
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      "code": "mt",
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      "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sekondiera"
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      "word": "sekundviser"
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      "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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      "word": "ponteiro dos segundos"
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      "sense": "the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed",
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      "word": "segundero"
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