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second

(Backer), noun advocate, aide, angel, backer, champion, endorser, patron, promoter, supporter

second

(Moment), noun before you know it, brief peeiod of time, flash, flash of an eyelid, instant

second

verb approve, assist, authorize, back, back up, confirm, endorse, favor, pass, ratify, receipt, recommend, sanction, stand behind, subscribe, support, validate, vote for, warrant
Associated concepts: second lien

SECOND. A measure equal to one sixtieth part of a minute. Vide Measure.

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The arrangement of the second room was rude and bizarre, but not without a singular originality and even tastefulness of conception.

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The two gladiators fell upon each other's neck, with floods of proud and happy tears; that other second embraced me; the surgeons, the orators, the undertakers, the police, everybody embraced, everybody congratulated, everybody cried, and the whole atmosphere was filled with praise and with joy unspeakable.

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In a seven-syllable verse the odd syllables can have any tone; as regards the even syllables, when the second syllable is even, then the fourth is oblique, and the sixth even.

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But," said Aramis, "why do you speak more freely of Seldon than of second Bertaudiere?

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The destruction of Demetrius, son to Philip the Second of Macedon, turned upon the father, who died of repentance.

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If you are speaking on my behalf, I can assure you that no question can be more indifferent and impersonal to me than second marriage.

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Paul's to the Crystal Palace and back by the river and Regent's Park, and by the time he reached his mother's window he had quite made up his mind that his second wish should be to become a bird.

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Her discovery, however, was made too late, as Boxtel had heard from the mouth of the prisoner himself that a second bulb existed.

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My only possible way to the second floor lay by the back of the house.

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Joe made an effort to get away, but Ponta got one hand free and Joe rushed back into a second clinch, to escape the blow.

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And you," he said to the Second Poet, "in Imagination - take the Bone.

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It is true, they realized that the Peasant Revolt was unplanned, and that the First Revolt was premature; but they little realized that the Second Revolt, planned and mature, was doomed to equal futility and more terrible punishment.