second
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
- The mechanic explained that to climb steep hills, the car should be in second gear for better traction.
Just make, make, make the VW van only start in second gear.
- Just make, make, make the VW van only start in second gear.
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
- Specialized
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
- Specialized
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Archaic
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
- Specialized
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Informal
A belief that food dropped on the floor for less than two seconds is still safe to eat
- Specialized
A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second
- Specialized
A rule that you can extend any straight line without end in both directions
- Archaic
A unit equal to one thousand cycles per second, now called kilohertz
- Specialized
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Archaic
A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies
- Specialized
A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
- Specialized
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
A person who belongs to a Christian group that believes Christ will return soon
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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.