second — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Tính từ

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

   Bản dịchThứ hai; theo sau thứ nhất mà không có gì xen giữa. Số thứ tự tương ứng với số đếm hai.

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

   This is my second visit.

   He lives on Second Street.

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

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   He became the second player to hit 50000 runs for his county.

   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.

   Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers. For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.

   Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.

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

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

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

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

   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,[…]

Trạng từ

1. After the first; at the second rank.

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable
   • with superlative

   Ví dụ

   Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.

2. After the first occurrence but before the third.

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

   He is batting second today.

Danh từ

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. A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

   Cách dùng

   • plural-normally

   Ví dụ

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

5. An additional helping of food.

   Cách dùng

   • plural-normally

   Ví dụ

   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.)

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   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.

   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.”

   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.

7. 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. 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.

    Ví dụ

    Thêm ví dụ (1)

    Since he [i.e., Abraham Lincoln] had very long arms, he chose cavalry broadswords and took lessons in sword fighting from a West Point graduate; and, on the appointed day, he and [James] Shields met on a sandbar in the Mississippi River, prepared to fight to the death; but, at the last minute, their seconds interrupted and stopped the 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.

11. A Cub Scout appointed to assist a sixer.

    Từ đồng nghĩa

    seconder

    Ví dụ

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

12. A second-class honours degree.

    Cách dùng

    • không trang trọng

    Ví dụ

    [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.

Động từ

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   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.”

2. To follow in the next place; to succeed.

   Ví dụ

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

   Sin is usually seconded with sin.

3. To climb after a lead climber.

Danh từ

1. 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.

   Bản dịchĐơn vị thời gian trước đây và thông thường được định nghĩa là một phần sáu mươi phút; Hệ đơn vị quốc tế định nghĩa chính xác hơn là thời gian của 9.192.631.770 chu kỳ bức xạ tương ứng với chuyển tiếp giữa hai mức siêu tinh tế của xêzi-133 ở trạng thái cơ bản, tại nhiệt độ không tuyệt đối và đứng yên.

   Ví dụ

   The light changes every thirty seconds.

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   Holonyms: decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

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

   For this reason, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that spinach be cooked at 160º for 15 seconds, which kills potentially fatal bacteria.

2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   arcsecondsecond of arc

3. A short, indeterminate amount of time.

   Bản dịchMột khoảng thời gian ngắn, không xác định.

   Cách dùng

   • không trang trọng

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   instantjiffysec

   Ví dụ

   Wait a second.

   I'll be there in a second.

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   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.

Động từ

1. To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.

   Cách dùng

   • cách dùng ở Anh
   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   detail

   Ví dụ

   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.

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

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

   As The Signpost reported, all was not well with Wikilambda. Ten days prior to the article, a group of Google employees seconded to Abstract Wikipedia had released a damning report on Meta-Wiki, the site where projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are documented.

2. To assist or support; to back.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

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

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   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.

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   I second the motion.

4. To accompany by singing as the second performer.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

Danh từ

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

   Ví dụ

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

   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

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   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

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

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

   Ví dụ

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

3. Aid; assistance; help.

   Cách dùng

   • không còn dùng

   Ví dụ

   Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.

Tính từ

1. coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   2nd2d

2. a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first

   Từ trái nghĩa

   first

   Ví dụ

   second flute

   the second violins

Danh từ

1. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   secs

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   time unitunit of time

2. an indefinitely short time

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   momentmominutebit

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   time

   Ví dụ

   wait just a moment

   in a mo

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   it only takes a minute

   in just a bit

3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   second base

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   position

4. a particular point in time

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   momentminuteinstant

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   pointpoint in time

   Ví dụ

   the moment he arrived the party began

5. following the first in an ordering or series

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   rank

   Ví dụ

   he came in a close second

6. a 60th part of a minute of arc

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   arcsecond

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   angular unit

   Ví dụ

   the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here

7. the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   attendantattendertender

8. a speech seconding a motion

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   secondmentendorsementindorsement

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   agreement

   Ví dụ

   do I hear a second?

9. the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   second gear

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   geargear mechanism

   Ví dụ

   he had to shift down into second to make the hill

10. merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name

    Từ đồng nghĩa

    irregular

    Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

    merchandisewareproduct

Trạng từ

1. in the second place

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   secondly

   Ví dụ

   second, we must consider the economy

1. give support or one's approval to

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   backendorseindorse

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   supportback up

   Ví dụ

   I'll second that motion

   I can't back this plan

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   endorse a new project

1. transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   transferreassign

   Ví dụ

   The officer was seconded for duty overseas