second
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
:
artículo de segunda
- My mother and I worked out a deal whereby Ola fed my sister and me one night a week, supplied us with "seconds" in undergarments, and on occasion made my sister and me absolutely beautiful party dresses from undergarment taffeta and satin out of remnants.
- factory seconds
- sell seconds
- buy seconds
Examples
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The huge warehouse sells seconds of sunny, hand-painted plates and tiles decorated with animals, fish, and plants.
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Also, look out for clearance items and "seconds" sales when not-quite-perfect diapers are sold at deeply discounted prices.
Blog text (32) -
This is a second hand shop for famous brands and really this time all of them are there.
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The fruit vendor sold me a box of seconds for $10.
Blog text (20) -
But as Hasslebrook turned away, he saw a sign: FACTORY SECONDS.
Fiction book (1994) -
I met this guy, and he distributes all these seconds and irregulars.
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The factory also runs a true outlet store, stocked with overruns or seconds from the assembly line.
Synonyms
1
4.8
An item sold cheaply because it has a small defect
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
8
6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
21
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
16
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
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6.0
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
- Specialized
6
3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
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6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
4
4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
- Specialized
4
7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
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4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Archaic
1
7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
1
6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Informal
1
5.3
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second for goods with small faults comes from the idea of 'second' quality, meaning they are not the top item but the one 'after' the best, so seconds are sold cheaper because they are slightly lower in quality.