second
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
- The composer instructed the musicians to play the second part softly, allowing the first to shine.
- play the second part
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Examples
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And Billy Strayhorn, a talented composer-arranger and second pianist, became Ellington's kindred spirit.
Academic text (1999) -
The orchestra's second violinist added depth to the performance with her rich, lower tones.
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Major chord with a second in the base.
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Sarah plays second clarinet, Matt plays second trumpet, and Michael plays mostly keyboard percussion.
Academic text (2011) -
In a choir, the soprano voice is the melody while the second voice supports it with harmony.
Synonyms
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1.0
Next after the first in position, time, or order
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
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2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
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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
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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
- Specialized
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7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
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4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
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5.0
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
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4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
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3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
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7.9
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
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7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
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2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
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4.7
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
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A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
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6.7
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
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6.5
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
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6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
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A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
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8.8
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
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4.4
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
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9.9
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Second in music means the part that comes after the first part, from Latin secundus 'next', so the second violin or trumpet is the lower or supporting line that follows the main one.