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Definition: Second-string |
Second-stringAdjective1. Being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Second-stringSynonym: substitute(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| "Second-string" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Second-string" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "second-string"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 二串. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 2 끈. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | econd-stringsay дублер (stand in, stand-in, understudy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: constringed, constringes, grindstones. | |
-2 letters: constringe, grindstone, stringendo. | |
-3 letters: censoring, centrings, centroids, codesigns, considers, consigned, consisted, corniness, corseting, cosigners, cosseting, crestings, digestors, dissector, doctrines, endorsing, escorting, incrossed, indentors, necrosing, nitrogens, noncredit, noncrises, seconding, sectoring. | |
-4 letters: centring, centroid, cestoids, cisterns, cistrons, codesign, cognised, cognises, cointers, congests, congress, consents, consider, consigns, contends, cordings, cordites, coreigns, corniest, cosigned. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: countershadings. | |
+4 letters: endocrinologists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 63 6F 6E 64 2D 73 74 72 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c o n d - s t r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 006F 006E 0064 002D 0073 0074 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53716981807015858684758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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