second
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
- The mechanic explained that to climb steep hills, the car should be in second gear for better traction.
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Examples
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Instead, manual simply allows the car to start in second gear for cold and icy starts.
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Dawn was coming after her at two hundred and sixty-seven meters per second, and she and her baby were without radiation armor.
Fiction book (1995) -
When driving uphill, it's best to shift into second gear to maintain speed without straining the engine.
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For a smoother ride at moderate speeds, you should use second gear when navigating through the city.
Synonyms
A car setting used after first for low to medium speed and more power
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Second for a gear in a car is named for its place in order: it is the gear that comes 'after the first', so putting the car in second gives more speed than first but less than higher gears.