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Word Meanings - READJOURNMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

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  • SECOND
    1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
  • REPEAT
    To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
  • REPEATEDLY
    More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
  • SECOND-CLASS
    Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
  • REPEATER
    One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
  • READJOURN
    To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
  • SECONDER
    One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
  • SECONDLY
    In the second place.
  • SECOND-SIGHT
    The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
  • SECOND-SIGHTED
    Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
  • ADJOURNMENT
    1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. 2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
  • SECONDHAND
    1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
  • SECONDARY
    Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;
  • REPEATING
    Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
  • SECOND-RATE
    Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
  • READJOURNMENT
    The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.
  • SECONDARINESS
    The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
  • SECONDO
    The second part in a concerted piece.
  • SECONDARILY
    1. In a secondary manner or degree. 2. Secondly; in the second place. God hath set some in the church, first apostels, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28.
  • AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
    The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
  • THIRTY-SECOND
    Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
  • UNSECONDED
    1. Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded. 2. Not exemplified a second time. "Strange and unseconded shapes of worms." Sir T. Browne.

 

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