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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)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".
He became the second player to hit 50000 runs for his county.
You take the first one, and I'll have the second.
- 2.
(not comparable)Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- 3.
(not comparable)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.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(not comparable)(with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
- 2.
(not comparable)After the first occurrence but before the third.
He is batting second today.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Something that is number two in a series.
- 2.
Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- 3.
The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- 4.
(plural normally)(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.
- 5.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.
- 6.
A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- 7.
(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).
- 8.
The second gear of an engine.
- 9.
(baseball) Second base.
- 10.
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.
- 11.
A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
Đồng nghĩa: seconder
- 12.
(informal)A second-class honours degree.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)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.
- 2.
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- 3.
(climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- 4.
(UK, transitive)To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.
Đồng nghĩa: detail
- 5.
(transitive)To assist or support; to back.
- 6.
(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.)
I second the motion.
- 7.
(transitive)(transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
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ine-pro From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (following, next in order), from root of sequor (to follow), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (to follow). secund secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from ōþer).