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Alternative form of secondhand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
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An intermediate person or means; intermediary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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On the clock face of a clock or watch, the hand (pointer) that shows the number of seconds that have passed.
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from a source of previously owned goods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I prefer to buy second hand
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hand marking seconds on a timepiece
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hand
Narrower terms: sweep hand, sweep-second
an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he could learn at second hand from books
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Broader terms: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor
second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”)
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
عَقْرَب ثَوَانِي
(ʕaqrab ṯawānī)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Belarusian:
секу́ндная стрэ́лка
(sjekúndnaja strélka)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Belarusian:
сэку́ндная стрэ́лка
(sekúndnaja strélka)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Bulgarian:
секу́ндна стрелка́
(sekúndna strelká)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Chinese Mandarin:
秒針 /秒针
(miǎozhēn)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Dutch:
secondewijzer
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Finnish:
sekuntiosoitin
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Finnish:
sekuntiviisari
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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French:
trotteuse
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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French:
aiguille des secondes
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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German:
Sekundenzeiger
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Greek:
δείκτης δευτερολέπτων
(deíktis defterolépton)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Hungarian:
másodpercmutató
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Indonesian:
jarum detik
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Japanese:
秒針
(byōshin)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Korean:
초침
(chochim)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Macedonian:
секунда́рник
(sekundárnik)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Maltese:
sekondiera
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Norwegian Bokmål:
sekundviser
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
sekundvisar
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Plautdietsch:
Zekundenwiesa
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Polish:
sekundnik
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Polish:
wskazówka sekundowa
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Portuguese:
ponteiro dos segundos
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Russian:
секу́ндная стре́лка
(sekúndnaja strélka)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Spanish:
segundero
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Swedish:
sekundvisare
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed
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Ukrainian:
секу́ндна стрі́лка
(sekúndna strílka)
— the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed