English-Russian translations for second
Definition of second
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them.
- 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; at the second rank
- After the first occurrence but before the third
- Something that is number two in a series
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest
- An additional helping of food
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess
- 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
- Second base
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer
- To agree as a second person to , usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations
- To follow in the next place; to succeed
- To climb after a lead climber
- 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 short, indeterminate amount of time
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment
- To assist or support; to back
- To agree as a second person to , usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above
- To accompany by singing as the second performer
- 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
- Aid; assistance; help
Examples
- 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 Ill have the second
- Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
- Saturn is the second largest planet
- He is batting second today
- They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds
- That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds
- I second the motion
- Ill be there in a second
- The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.
- I second the motion
- If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second
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