different between spec vs sec

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?k/
• Homophone: speck

Noun

spec (plural specs)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.

2. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
3. Clipping of specialization.
4. Clipping of specialist.
5. Clipping of special.
6. (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
7. (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
8. (dialect) a special place (for hiding or viewing)
9. (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.

Derived terms

• on spec

Translations

Verb

spec (third-person singular simple present specs, present participle speccing, simple past and past participle specced)

1. (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.

Translations

Anagrams

• CEPs, CPEs, CSPE, ECPs, EPCs, PESC, Pécs, ceps, pecs

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian spezie (“spices”), ultimately from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?t?s/

Noun

spec m (indefinite plural speca, definite singular speci, definite plural specat)

1. (botany) pepper (Capsicum annuum)
2. paprika
3. (adjective) cranky

Declension

Synonyms

• piperkë
• gogozhare

References

Translingual

Symbol

sec

1. (trigonometry) Symbol of the trigonometric function secant.

   Coordinate terms: csc, cot, arcsec

2. (nonstandard) Symbol of second, an SI unit of measurement of time.

Usage notes

The standard symbol for "second" is s.

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of second. From 1881.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

sec (plural sec or secs)

1. (colloquial) Second, ¹?₆₀ of a minute.
2. (colloquial) Abbreviation of second. (A short indeterminate period of time.)

   Wait a sec!

Alternative forms

• sec.

Anagrams

• CES, CEs, CSE, ECS, ESC, Esc, SCE, sce.

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin siccus. Compare Romanian sec.

Alternative forms

• secu

Adjective

sec

1. dry
2. barren, deserted

Etymology 2

From Latin sicc?. Compare Romanian seca, sec.

Alternative forms

• secu

Verb

sec (third-person singular present seacã, past participle sicatã)

1. I dry, dry up.
2. I exhaust, wither, drain, empty.

Related terms

• sicari / sicare
• sicat
• sicãturã
• seatsitã

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan sec, from Latin siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?s?k/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?k/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sek/

Adjective

sec (feminine seca, masculine plural secs, feminine plural seques)

1. dry (free from or lacking moisture)

   Synonym: eixut

2. (of wine) dry (low in sugar)
3. skinny

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?k/

Verb

sec

1. first-person singular present indicative form of seure

Further reading

• “sec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sec” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French sec, from Latin siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Adjective

sec (feminine singular sèche, masculine plural secs, feminine plural sèches)

1. dry
2. dried, having had its moisture evaporated

3. lean, thin, skinny
4. (of alcohol) bitter, not sweet
5. (of a person) harsh

Noun

sec m (plural secs)

1. something that is dry
   • 1883, La Bible, translated by Louis Segond, Genesis 1:9

     Que les eaux qui sont au-dessous du ciel se rassemblent en un seul lieu, et que le sec paraisse.

     Let the waters below the heavens gather in one place, and let the dry stuff (i.e. the land) come forth.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “sec” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ces

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ssez (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s??i (“to cut, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t?s/

Verb

sec impf (perfective pósec)

1. to mow (cut something down)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• sec in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• sec in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?k/

Adjective

s?c (Anglian)

1. Alternative form of s?oc

Declension

Old French

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sec m (oblique and nominative feminine singular seiche)

1. dry (lacking moisture)

Descendants

• French: sec
• Norman: sé
• Walloon: setch

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sek/

Adjective

sec m or n (feminine singular seac?, plural seci)

1. dry
2. barren, empty, deserted; also dried up
3. (figuratively) missing or deficient in something, lacking; also useless
4. (figuratively) dull, stupid, empty-headed
5. (regional, Transylvania) skinny

Declension

Synonyms

• (dry): uscat
• (empty): gol, de?ert
• (stupid): prost
• (skinny): slab

Related terms

• seca
• secet?

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) sitg, setg
• (Sursilvan) schetg
• (Sutsilvan) sétg
• (Puter, Vallader) sech

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sec m (feminine singular secca, masculine plural secs, feminine plural seccas)

1. (Sursilvan) dry