What does seconds mean?
Definitions for seconds
sec·onds
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seconds(Noun)
A second serving of food for one person.
There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds.
seconds(Noun)
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.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'seconds' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2550
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'seconds' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2101
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of seconds in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of seconds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of seconds in a Sentence
Police Commissioner William Bratton:
These officers had no chance to call for assistance, the whole incident took three seconds start to finish.
A complicated command from air traffic control can take pilots up to 30 seconds to actually turn all the knobs, hit all the buttons and make that change actually occur.
She squeezed my neck for about 20 to 30 seconds so I couldn't see because my eyes were watering, she wanted to reach for a bowl but I reached it before she did. I couldn't see so I just swung it.
I thought, 'this isn't right', and I told my colleague, 'I think we're in trouble'. After I said that, the ship flipped over. It only took 30 seconds or a minute.
This man kneeled on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that ?! this kid thought he was going to die, he knew he was going to die. He called for his dead mother.
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