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Reconds vs Seconds - What's the difference?

reconds | seconds |

As verbs the difference between reconds and seconds

is that reconds is third-person singular of recond while seconds is third-person singular of second.

As a noun seconds is

plural of lang=en.

reconds

English

Verb

(head)
  • (recond)

    • recond

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put away, to set apart
  • *1608 , John Wilson, English Martyrology , 89
  • *:St Ethelwold, King of the same Prouince]] and Martyr: who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects, and his body brought to the Church of Hexam... the same was with great solemnity & veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so [[precious, pretious a treasure.
  • *1693 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 17, 657
  • *:A Ferment... somewhere reconded out of the Road of the circulating Blood, and there gradually maturated.

    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed. "recond, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009.

    seconds

    English

    Noun

    (head)
    • There are sixty seconds in a minute.
  • A second serving of food for one person.
    • ''There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds .
  • An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount
    • It was marked as seconds , but I can't find anything wrong with it.
  • Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

    • Synonyms

    * (second serving ): second helping

    Verb

    (head)
  • (second)
    • ----