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Definition of Second-string
1. Adjective. Being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team. "A second-string pitcher"
Definition of Second-string
1. Adjective. belonging to the second string of a team ¹
2. Adjective. substitute or replacement ¹
3. Adjective. second most important ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Second-string
Literary usage of Second-string
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"in unison, then tune the second string to note, made by pressing the third string
... Tune the first string to note made at third fret on the second string. ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"By the second string on the ... must be meant the lower string; and it is this
string which corresponds to the real second string on the samisen. ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1885)
"To control this a second string from the other end of the cross sleeve runs through
... If the star is falling, a second string fixed to the top of the ..."
4. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1885)
"69 the note 520 cents is played on the second string, but is here inserted in
order of pitch. Ко. 72 gives the most extraordinary and most limited scale ..."
5. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"GÍ) the note 520 cents is played on the second string, but is here inserted in
order of pitch. Nos. 73 and 74 are an attempt to represent the Indian ..."
6. The Bookman (1911)
"Second String deals with the extremely mixed society of a small English town, in
which the hero, Andy Hayes, upon returning home after some years in the ..."
7. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"The fixed -- was that which hud the pa JUT on its second string, ... An opening
in the table parallel •with the second string enabled me to mark on the ..."
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