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.
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.
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.
After the first; at the second rank.
After the first occurrence but before the third.
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.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
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.