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- If you have seconds, you have a second helping of food. There's seconds if you want them
- The seconds of someone who is taking part in a boxing match or chess tournament are the people who assist and encourage them. He shouted to his seconds, `I did it! I did it!'
- If you say that something is second only to something else, you mean that only that thing is better or greater than it. As a major health risk hepatitis is second only to tobacco
- You say second when you want to make a second point or give a second reason for something. The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action
- If you second a proposal in a meeting or debate, you formally express your agreement with it so that it can then be discussed or voted on. Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting + seconder seconders sec·ond·er Candidates need a proposer and seconder whose names are kept secret
- emphasis If you say that something is second to none, you are emphasizing that it is very good indeed or the best that there is. Our scientific research is second to none
- Second is used before superlative adjectives to indicate that there is only one thing better or larger than the thing you are referring to. The party is still the second strongest in Italy. the second-largest city in the United States
- Seconds are goods that are sold cheaply in shops because they have slight faults. It's a new shop selling discounted lines and seconds
- second nature: see nature in the second place: see place
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- If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself. Most of them had only heard of the massacre at second hand. see also second-hand
- The second item in a series is the one that you count as number two. the second day of his visit to Delhi. their second child My son just got married for the second time She was the second of nine children. King Charles the Second Britain came second in the Prix St Georges Derby
- If you second what someone has said, you say that you agree with them or say the same thing yourself. The Prime Minister seconded the call for discipline in a speech last week
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- In Britain, an upper second is a good honours degree and a lower second is an average honours degree. I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second