Second-hand

Definition

second 1 /'sekǝnd/ pron, det ၁။ (က) ~ ( to sb/sth ) ဒုတိယ။ the second of June ❍ He was (the) second to arrive. ❍ She published her first novel last year and now she's written a second. ❍ You're the second (person) to ask me that. ❍ She was/came/finished second to the Ethopian champion in the marathon. ❍ the second month of the year ❍ This is the second time it's happened. ❍ Daniel is her second son. ❍ Osaka is the second largest city in Japan/Japan's second city. ❍ She's in the second team. ❍ ( fml ) He is second only to my own son in my affections. See also two (ခ) ေနာက္ထပ္။ a second helping of soup ❍ Italy scored a second goal just after half-time. ❍ My wife and I decided not to have a second child. ၂။ ဒုတိယ။ He claims to be the second Po Sein. ဒုတိယဖိုးစိန္လို႔ သူ႕ဘာသာ ကင္ပြန္းတပ္တယ္။ n ၁။ [C] ( Brit ) (တကၠသိုလ္တြင္ အျမင့္ဆံုးအဆင့္ ေအာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ) ဒုတိယအဆင့္ဘြဲ ။့ get a (good) second in economics at Oxford. ၂။ (also second gear ) [U] ဒုတိယအနိမ့္ဆံုး ဂီယာ။ စကၠင္းဂီယာ။ Are you in first or second? ❍ Change down from third to second. ၃။ [C usu pl ] ထုတ္လုပ္ရာ၌ အျပစ္အနာပါ၍ ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ေရာင္းေသာ ကုန္ပစၥည္း။ These plates are seconds. ၄။ seconds [pl] ( infml ) လိုက္ပြဲ။ Are there any seconds? ၅။ [C] (လက္ေဝွ႔ပြဲ၊ ယွဥ္ ၿပိဳင္တိုက္ပြဲတြင္) အကူ၊ အေဖာ္။ v ၁။ (အဆို၊ တင္ျပခ်က္ကို) ေထာက္ခံသည္။ Mrs Smith proposed the motion and Mr Jones seconded (it). ❍ ( joc )‘Let's go to the cinema. ’ ‘I'll second that. ’ Compare PROPOSE ၁ ၂။ အားေပးကူညီသည္။ I was ably seconded in this research by my son. ၃။ /sÇ'kɒnd/ ~ sb (from sth) (to sth) ( esp Brit ) မူရင္းရာထူးတာဝန္မွ အျခားဌာန လက္ေအာက္သို႔ ယာယီေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းထမ္းေဆာင္ေစသည္။ a manager seconded from a regional branch to head office. adv ဒုတိယ။ I agreed to speak second. ❍ He puts his family first and his job second. ❏ second ballot n ပထမအႀကိမ္ မဲမျပတ္သျဖင့္ မဲ အမ်ားဆံုး ရသူအစုထဲမွ ထပ္မံမဲေပးေရြးေကာက္ျခင္း။ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ မဲ ေပးျခင္း။ force/avoid a second ballot. ❏ second-best adj ၁။ ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ my second-best suit ❍ the second-best solution. ၂။ (က) ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ I like live music: for me records are definitely second-best. (ခ) အ႐ံႈးသမား။ အ႐ံႈးဘက္။ The two teams are quite evenly matched but this time Arsenal came off second-best. n [U]ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ I'm used to high quality and won't accept second-best. ❏ second chamber (also upper chamber ) n ဥပေဒျပဳ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္။ ❏ second class n [U] (က) ဒုတိယတန္း။ travel in second class ❍ second-class carriages/compartments/passengers. (ခ) ဒုတိယတန္း(ေခ်ာပို႔)။ Second class is cheaper. ❍ second-class letters/stamps. Compare first class ❏ second-class adj ၁။ ဒုတိယဆင့္။ ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ a second-class degree in history ❍ second-class hotels/roads. ၂။ ( derog ) ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ a second-class school ❍ The old are treated as second-class citizens (ie not treated as well as other members of society). adv ဒုတိယတန္း မွ၊ ျဖင့္။ go/travel second-class ❍ It takes longer if you send it second-class. ❏ the second coming n [sing] ( religion ) ခရစ္ေတာ္ ျပန္လည္ရွင္သန္ထေျမာက္ျခင္း။ ❏ second cousin n ႏွစ္ဝမ္းကြဲ။ See also once, twice, etc removed (remove) ❏ seconder n အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို ေထာက္ခံသူ။ Compare PROPOSER ❏ second-guess v ၁။ ႀကိဳတြက္သည္။ Don't try to second-guess the outcome. ❍ Good chess players can second-guess their opponents' thoughts. ၂။ အတူဆံုးျဖတ္ ခဲ့သည့္ကိစၥကို ေနာက္မွျပစ္တင္ ေဝဖန္သည္။ The prime minister showed a remarkable willingness to second-guess her most senior ministers. ❏ second-hand adj, adv ၁။ တစ္ပတ္ရစ္။ လက္က်။ တစ္ပတ္ႏြမ္း။ a second-hand car/suit/camera ❍ a second-hand bookshop (ie a shop selling second-hand books) ❍ I rarely buy anything second-hand. ၂။ ( often derog ) တစ္ဆင့္ၾကား(သတင္းစသည္)။ second-hand gossip ❍ get news second-hand. ❏ second home n ၁။ (အပန္းေျဖရန္ စသည္ျဖင့္ အေစာင္အျဖစ္ ဝယ္ထားသည့္) အရန္ အိမ္၊ အခန္း။ second homes lying empty in the Welsh countryside. ၂။ [sing] မူရင္းေနထိုင္ သည့္အိမ္အျပင္ တစ္လွည့္စီသြားေရာက္ေနေလ့ရိွေသာ အျခားၿမိဳ႕ရြာ ေဒသရိွ အိမ္။ I was born in New York, but France is my second home. နယူးေယာက္က ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ဇာတိၿမိဳ႕ပါပဲ၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ ျပင္သစ္မွာအေနမ်ားလို႔ ပိုေပ်ာ္ပါတယ္။ ❏ second in command n [sing] ဒုတာဝန္ခံ။ ဒုတပ္မႉး။ the sales director and her second in command ❍ He is second in command of the regiment. ❏ second language n (usu sing ) မိမိဘာသာစကားအျပင္ အပိုတတ္ေျမာက္ေသာ ဘာသာျခားစကား။ ❏ second lieutenant n ဒုတိယဗိုလ္။ ဒုဗိုလ္။ ❏ secondly adv ၿပီးေတာ့။ Firstly, it's too expensive; and secondly, it's very ugly. ❍ FIRST ❏ secondment n [C,U] ယာယီေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း ထမ္းေဆာင္ေစ ျခင္း။ a two-month secondment ❍ an officer on secondment overseas. ❏ second name n (usu sing ) (က) မ်ဳိး႐ိုးအမည္။ I don't know his second name. (ခ) အျခားအမည္။ Do you have a second name? ❏ second nature n [U] ~ (to sb) (to do sth) ပင္ကိုစ႐ိုက္ သဖြယ္ ပါေနေသာအက်င့္။ Secrecy and deception had become second nature to her. ❍ It was second nature to me to use such language. ❏ the second person n [sing] ( grammar ) နာသူနာမ္စား။ သင္။ the second person singular/plural. ❏ second-rate adj ညံ့ေသာ။ အညံ့စား။ a second-rate actor/performance/restaurant ❍ His novels are very second-rate. ❏ second sight n [U] အၾကားအျမင္။ ❏ second-string adj (မရိွသံုး)အရန္(အားကစားသမား၊ အသင္း)။ a second-string team/side. ❏ second to none [ IDM ] ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းေသာ။ As a dancer, he is second to none. ❏ second wind n [U] အေမာေစ့ျခင္း။ She's got/found her second wind. second 2 /'sekǝnd/ n ၁။ ( symb” ) (က) တစ္မိနစ္၏ ၁ / ၆၀ ။ စကၠန္႔(အခ်ိန္)။ The winning time was 1 minute 5 seconds. (ခ) ေထာင့္ဒီဂရီတိုင္းရာတြင္ တစ္ဒီဂရီ၏ ၁ / ၃၆၀၀ (သို႔) တစ္မိနစ္၏ ၁ / ၆၀ ပမာဏ။ စကၠန္႔။ 1½ 6' 10" (ie one degree, six minutes, and ten seconds). ၂။ (also infml sec ) ခဏ။ I'll be ready in a second. ❍ The food was on the table in seconds. ❏ second hand n (usu sing ) နာရီစကၠန္႔လက္တံ။ Compare SECOND-HAND

Examples

1. She won the 400 metres race in 51 seconds.
2. Each commercial lasts for 30 seconds.
3. Just give me a second to put my coat on.
4. I’ll be with you in two seconds.
5. [seconds later/within seconds] : The computer crashed seconds later.