What is another word for sec.?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛk] (IPA)

"Sec" is a commonly used abbreviation for the word "second". However, there are various alternatives for "sec" that can help spice up your writing. These synonyms include words like "moment", "instant", "jiffy", "tick", and "beat". "Moment" and "instant" both convey a sense of urgency and immediacy, while "jiffy" and "tick" are more casual ways of referring to a second. "Beat", on the other hand, can refer to a rhythmic pulse or a measure of time, and is often used in music. By incorporating these different synonyms into your writing, you can create more engaging and varied compositions.

What are the hypernyms for Sec.?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Sec.

  • Persec.tion produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sec.; it made them a faction.
    Thomas Babington
  • He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sec. or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sec., a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
    Anna Julia Cooper
  • Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sec., race or nation.
    Samuel Gompers
  • When an individual, a sec., a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sec., clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
    Paul Harris

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