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He lives on Second Street.

The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".

You take the first one, and I'll have the second.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

May the day when we become the second people upon earth […] be the day of our utter extirpation!

1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation I. Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 6:

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

Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.

A Daniel ſtill ſay I, a ſecond Daniel,[…]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 180, column 2:

Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).

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Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.

(with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.

He is batting second today.

After the first occurrence but before the third.


second

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.

They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.

(usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.

(usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.

The policeman smiled, his eyes twinkling. "Now if you'll follow me, I'll escort you to the Victoria."
"Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..."
That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second.

2003, Sheila Ryan Wallace, The Sea Captain and His Ladies, page 22:

Smoky Joe ran against a Houston horse named Cherokee Chief.
“Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second.”

2009, Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather, page 37:

I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance ... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second.

A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)

(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).

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.

Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.

1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book:

A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.

[Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.

2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454:

(informal) A second-class honours degree.

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place next below first in a race or contest

второ качество

manufactured item that fails to meet quality control standards

втори шанс

another chance to achieve what should have been done the first time

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music: interval between two adjacent notes


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I second the motion.

Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”

2017, Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey:

(transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)

In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

Sin is usually seconded with sin.

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

To follow in the next place; to succeed.

(climbing) To climb after a lead climber.

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second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)

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A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines 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.

I'll be there in a second.

Exposure of aluminum to the air causes a near instantaneous oxide. So rapid is the oxidation that it is safe to say you never see aluminum that has no oxide on its surface... The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed.

2020, L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, in Aluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:

(informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.

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one-sixtieth of a minute; SI unit of time

From Middle English secunde, seconde, borrowed from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).


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The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.

Things changed quickly from 1892 when Sam Fay was seconded from the L.S.W.R. as General Manager & Secretary.

1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 585–586:

Daniel had still been surprised, however, to find the lab area deserted, all the scientists apparently seconded by Cleomides's military friends.

1998, Paul Leonard, chapter 9, in Dreamstone Moon:

(transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.

Wee haue Supplyes, to ſecond our Attempt:[…]

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 91, column 1:

In human works, tho’ labour’d on with pain, / A thouſand movements ſcarce one purpoſe gain; / In God's, one ſingle can its End produce, / Yet ſerves to ſecond too ſome other Uſe.

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 6, line 61:

(transitive) To assist or support; to back.

I second the motion.

(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.

seconds (present singular third-person)
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From Middle French seconder, from Latin secundō (“assist, make favorable”).


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The dogs however parted, and after a little handling by their seconds immediately returned to the charge

1820, Pierce Egan, Sporting Anecdotes, page 414:

They find ways to take advice from their seconds or they arrange the schedule against you as they did to me in the finals of the 1962 World Tournament

1973, Frank Brady, Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy, page 201:

Vaguely reminiscent of the use of "seconds" among duelists, this provision required that the two hostile nations stop threatening each other and, instead, to let two appointed countries (their "seconds") try and solve their difficulties

1992, Mark W. Janis, International Courts for the Twenty-First Century, page 10:

Theodore's practice is described as a model for the housemasters and their seconds

2009, David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early ...:

One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.

If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.

One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.

Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.

1608, J. Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:

sekundant

attendant of a duel or boxing match standing in for a contestant