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Look up: Secondary

  1. secondary
    [adj] - depending on or incidental to what is original or primary 2. [adj] - of second rank or importance or value 3. [adj] - not of major importance 4. [adj] - belonging to a lower class or rank 5. [n] - the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Secondary
    The smaller or dimmer component of a pair of celestial objects that orbits the primary object.
    Found on http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronom

  3. Secondary
    (Phase of Education) Full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age who are either Senior Pupils or Junior pupils who have attained the age of 10 yrs and 6 months and whom it is expedient to educate together with senior pupils of compulsory school age.
    Found on http://www.edubase.co.uk/glossary.aspx

  4. Secondary
    describes a disease or disorder that follows or is caused by another one
    Found on http://www.medichecks.com/glossary.cfm?l

  5. Secondary
    cancer tissue that has spread from the original or primary site - the usual meanings of subsidiary, less important, consequent upon etc.
    Found on http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/Arc

  6. secondary
    taking second place; 2)of the nature of a metastasis Category: Medicine • descriptive of fluid at high pressure applied to the outlet port of the pressure intensifier, and of anything concerned with the fluid: flow, pressure, circuit Category: Mechanical engineering
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Secondary
    Sec'ond·a·ry adjective [ Confer French secondaire , Latin secundaire . See Second , adjective ] 1. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. « Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.» L ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/51

  8. Secondary
    Sec'ond·a·ry noun ; plural Secondaries 1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary , or undersheriff of the city of London. « Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary Shak. 2. (Astron.) (a) A secondary circle.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/51

  9. secondary
    Second or inferior in order of time, place or importance, derived from or consequent to a primary event or thing. ... Origin: L. Secundarius, secundus = second ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. secondary
    adjective belonging to a lower class or rank
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. secondary
    adjective not of major importance; `played a secondary role in world events`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. secondary
    adjective depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; `a secondary infection`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. secondary
    noun the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. Secondary
    • (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. • (n.) A secondary quill. • (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands. • (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another di...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Secondary
    (from the article `geochronology`) ...recognized the existence of three distinct rock assemblages: (1) a successionally lowest category, the Primary (Urgebirge), composed mainly of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/55

  16. secondary
    (L. secundarius; secundus second) second or inferior in order of time, place, or importance; derived from or consequent to a primary event or thing.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  17. secondary
    secondary 1. Belonging to the second class in respect of dignity or importance; entitled to consideration only in the second place. Also, and usually, in less precise sense: Not in the first class; not chief or principal; of minor importance, subordinate.2. Subsidiary, auxiliary; that which is used only in the second resort, or that serves to assist somethin...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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