second vs stop

second

verb
  • To transfer temporarily to alternative employment. 

  • To climb after a lead climber. 

  • To assist or support; to back. 

  • To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.) 

  • To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.) 

  • To accompany by singing as the second performer. 

  • To follow in the next place; to succeed. 

adj
  • Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. 

  • Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. 

  • Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. 

noun
  • The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel. 

  • An additional helping of food. 

  • Something that is number two in a series. 

  • A second-class honours degree. 

  • One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined 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. 

  • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. 

  • The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental). 

  • A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards. 

  • Second base. 

  • A short, indeterminate amount of time. 

  • Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. 

  • One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc. 

  • A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.) 

  • The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. 

  • A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer. 

  • The second gear of an engine. 

  • One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. 

adv
  • After the first; at the second rank. 

  • After the first occurrence but before the third. 

stop

verb
  • To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily. 

  • To cause (something) to come to an end. 

  • To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop. 

  • To cease; to no longer continue (doing something). 

  • To cease moving. 

  • To end someone else's activity. 

  • To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part. 

  • To make fast; to stopper. 

  • To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. 

  • To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later. 

  • To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. 

  • To close or block an opening. 

  • Not to continue. 

punct
  • Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram. 

noun
  • An f-stop. 

  • A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. 

  • A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light. 

  • A coup d'arret, or stop thrust. 

  • A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. 

  • A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. 

  • One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced. 

  • An action of stopping; interruption of travel. 

  • A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. 

  • A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis. 

  • A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. 

  • A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal 

  • That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. 

  • The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. 

  • The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. 

  • A device intended to block the path of a moving object 

  • The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. 

  • A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image. 

  • A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. 

  • A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. 

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