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📚 noun • entry_id 439

second

/ˈsɛk.ənd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
segunda
The second gear of an engine.
📚 noun • entry_id 441

second

/ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
segundo
A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
Holonyms: decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < tera…
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond
momento
A short, indeterminate amount of time.
Exposure of aluminum to the air causes a near instantaneous oxide. So rapid is the oxidation that it is safe to say you never see aluminum that has no oxide on its surface... The i…
I'll be there in a second.
Phrases
No hay frases
📚 verb • entry_id 440

second

/ˈsɛk.ənd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
secundar
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
I second the motion.
Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
segundar
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
Sin is usually seconded with sin.
Phrases
📚 verb • entry_id 442

second

/səˈkɒnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apoyar • secundar
To assist or support; to back.
secundar
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
I second the motion.