Second Line Definition

sĕkənd-lĭn
noun
A jaunty, syncopated rhythm in 2/4 time, often used in the rhythm and blues and jazz of New Orleans.
Webster's New World
adjective
Relating to or being a secondary stage of something.
The body's second-line defense against infection.
American Heritage Medicine
Being a drug or therapy that is used to treat a condition or disease only after another drug or therapy has been used or considered.
American Heritage Medicine
Of or relating to second-line jazz.
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Other Word Forms of Second Line

Noun

Singular:
second line
Plural:
second lines

Origin of Second Line

  • From the second line formed by people who, joining the traditional funeral parades of New Orleans after being attracted by the music, sing and dance while following the first line that includes the hearse, the family and friends of the deceased, and the band

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Second Line Sentence Examples

  • If the actual crests of the excursions had been measured the figures in the second line would have been even larger.

  • In second line were two brigades and the cavalry (dismounted).

  • French centre near Amotz, where, after hard fighting, it swept away the 18,000 of the second line there opposed to it, cutting Soult's army in two.

  • The citizens hastened to construct a second line of wall, enclosing the Cowgate and the heights beyond, since occupied by Greyfriars churches and Heriot's hospital, but still excluding the Canongate, as pertaining to the abbey of Holyrood.

  • The sum and product of two quaternions are defined by the formulae mi ase + F+lases = (a s + 133) es 2arer X ZO,es = Fiarfseres, where the products e,e, are further reduced according to the following multiplication table, in which, for example, the eo e1 e2 e3 second line is to be read eieo = e1, e 1 2 = - eo, e i e 2 = es, eie3 = - e2.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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