second

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “He lives on Second Street.”

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

   “His job is second priority, because his family is the most important thing in his life.”

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

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

4. zarf After the first; at the second rank.

   “Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.”

5. zarf After the first occurrence but before the third.

   “He is batting second today.”

6. isim Something that is number two in a series.
7. isim Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
8. isim The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
9. isim A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

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

10. isim An additional helping of food.

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

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

    “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.”

12. isim 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).
13. isim The second gear of an engine.
14. isim Second base.
15. isim 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.

    “Joint enterprise law dates back to at least the 16th century. It was later developed to deter duelling by making seconds and doctors liable for murder.”

16. isim A Cub Scout appointed to assist a sixer.

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

17. isim A second-class honours degree.

    “[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.”

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

    “I second the motion.”

19. fiil To follow in the next place; to succeed.

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

20. fiil To climb after a lead climber.
21. isim 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.

    “Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond”

22. isim A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
23. isim A short, indeterminate amount of time.

    “I'll be there in a second.”

24. fiil To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.

    “The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.”

25. fiil To assist or support; to back.

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

26. fiil To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)

    “I second the motion.”

27. fiil To accompany by singing as the second performer.
28. isim One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.

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

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

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

30. isim Aid; assistance; help.

    “Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.”