second
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
:
segundo
- The composer instructed the musicians to play the second part softly, allowing the first to shine.
- play the second part
So so that was my stand up basically playing second fiddle, rightfully so, but nevertheless second fiddle to Mike Myers and wedding Myers hands.
- So so that was my stand up basically playing second fiddle, rightfully so, but nevertheless second fiddle to Mike Myers and wedding Myers hands.
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
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
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4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
6
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'
5
6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
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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
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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
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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.