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See definition of sec on Dictionary.com
  • as ininstant
  • as inminute
  • as inmoment
  • as insecond

synonyms for sec

  • breath
  • crack
  • flash
  • jiffy
  • juncture
  • minute
  • occasion
  • point
  • second
  • shake
  • tick
  • time
  • trice
  • twinkling
  • while
  • wink
  • bat of the eye
  • nothing flat
  • short while
  • split second
  • moment
  • second
  • short time
  • breath
  • breathing
  • crack
  • flash
  • instant
  • jiffy
  • min
  • MO
  • shake
  • twinkling
  • bat of an eye
  • nothing flat
  • sixtieth of hour
  • sixty seconds
  • split second
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How to use sec in a sentence

Some even went 'jusqu' l'Arbre sec, Ou li oisel pendent au bec.'
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCER
Son style est chti et correct, quoique un peu dur et sec; son ton est grave et soutenu.
BARON D'HOLBACHMAX PEARSON CUSHING
He didn't sec his mother's letter, but he knew that it went.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMES
Guide center designates the left guide of the center company, as explained in 3d Sec.
MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAININGJAMES A. MOSS
After our coffee, cigarettes, and a "triple-sec" each, we strolled round to the General Post Office.
THE SIGN OF SILENCEWILLIAM LE QUEUX
Your memorialists therefore pray that the park be defined by the following boundaries: Beginning at the northwest corner of sec.
MOUNT RAINIERVARIOUS
The following formula gives the relation between the speed (v), wave length (l), and number of vibrations per sec.
PHYSICSWILLIS EUGENE TOWER
Dawson holds the local high-hurdles record at 19-1/4 sec., and Woolsey holds the low-hurdles record at 31 sec.
HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, AUGUST 27, 1895VARIOUS
The pendulum was a free swinging pendulum for 59 sec., and the increase of the arc could scarcely be detected.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 664, SEPTEMBER 22,1888VARIOUS
The values given are the resistances per square foot at 10 ft. per sec.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 1VARIOUS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SEC

  • bat of the eye
  • breath
  • crack
  • flash
  • jiffy
  • juncture
  • minute
  • nothing flat
  • occasion
  • point
  • sec
  • second
  • shake
  • short while
  • split second
  • tick
  • time
  • trice
  • twinkling
  • while
  • wink
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.