| second | |
| 1. adj. 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 2. adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. | |
| 3. adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. | |
| 4. adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank. | |
| Saturn is the second largest planet. | |
| 5. adv. After the first occurrence but before the third. | |
| He is batting second today. | |
| 6. s. One that is number two in a series. | |
| 7. s. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. | |
| 8. s. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. | |
| 9. s. (usually in the plural) 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. s. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food. | |
| That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds. | |
| 11. s. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.) | |
| 12. s. (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). | |
| 13. s. The second gear of an engine. | |
| 14. s. (baseball) Second base. | |
| 15. s. 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.https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/oct/31/appeal-court-upholds | |
| 16. s. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer. | |
| 17. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.) | |
| I second the motion. | |
| 18. v. To follow in the next place; to succeed. | |
| 19. v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber. | |
| 20. s. 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 sta | |
| 21. s. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. | |
| 22. s. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time. | |
| I'll be there in a second. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment. | |
| 24. v. To assist or support; to back. | |
| 25. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.) | |
| I second the motion. | |
| 26. s. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. | |
| 27. s. 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. | |
| 28. s. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help. | |
