Maintain vs Second - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
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To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
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, title= To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
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, title= Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
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, chapter=20 Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
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Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
* Shakespeare
(with superlative) At the second rank.
After the first occurrence but before the third occurrence.
One that is number two in a series.
One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
The place that is next below first in a race or contest.
(usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
(usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
* 2003 , Sheila Ryan Wallace,
*:The policeman smiled, his eyes twinkling. "Now if you'll follow me, I'll escort you to the Victoria."
"Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..."
That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second .
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*:Smoky Joe ran against a Houston horse named Cherokee Chief.
“Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second .”
* 2011 , Karen Miller,
(music) 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).
The second gear of an engine.
(baseball) Second base.
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; one-sixtieth of a minute.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
A short, indeterminate amount of time.
(UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
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To assist or support; to back.
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* Alexander Pope
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
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* South
To climb after a lead climber.
One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
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One who agrees in addition, or such a motion, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
(obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.
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As verbs the difference between maintain and second
is that maintain is to support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action while second is to transfer temporarily to alternative employment.As an adjective second is
number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.As an adverb second is
at the second rank.As a noun second is
one that is number two in a series.maintain
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
QPR 2-3 Man City, passage=Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.}}
Mining the Boreal North, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}
Derived terms
* maintainabilityAntonyms
* (to keep up) abandonAnagrams
*second
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) second, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
- May the day when we become the second people upon earth be the day of our utter extirpation.
- A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
Alternative forms
* (number-two) , IInd; (in names of monarchs and popes) IISynonyms
* (nonstandard) (l)Derived terms
* secondary * second amendment * second base * second baseman * second-best * second cousin * second fiddle * second-guess * second hand * second imperative (Latin grammar) * second-in-command * second nature * second-storey manAdverb
(-)- Saturn is the second largest planet.
- He is batting second today.
Noun
(en noun)- They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds .
- That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds .
The Sea Captain and His Ladies, page 22:
"Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..."
That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second .
Stormy Weather, page 37:
“Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second .”
The Innocent Mage:
- I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance ... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second .
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* (SI unit of time) (abbreviations) s, sec; (symbols) s (SI and non-scientific usage), sec (in non-scientific usage only) * (unit of angle) (abbreviations) arcsec,Noun
(en noun)- I'll be there in a second .
Synonyms
* (unit of angle) second of arc, arcsecond * (colloquial) sec *Derived terms
* leap second * millisecond * nanosecondEtymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Daniel had still been surprised, however, to find the lab area deserted, all the scientists apparently seconded by Cleomides's military friends.
- We have supplies to second our attempt.
- In human works though laboured on with pain, / A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; / In God's, one single can its end produce, / Yet serves to second too some other use.
- I second the motion.
- In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
- Sin is seconded with sin.
Derived terms
* secondment * secondeeNoun
(en noun)- If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second .
- Give second , and my love / Is everlasting thine.
