secondhandとは

意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

secondhand (not comparable)

1. (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.

   Synonyms: used, pre-owned, hand-me-down

2. (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
3. (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
   • 2013, Bruce Crow, A Land of Strangers: Cane Creek Tennessee's Mormon Massacre and its Tragic Effects on the People Who Lived There‎^[1]:

     So nearly every name comes from a second hand source. The exception to this rule has been the vigilantes themselves. Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.

   • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 60:

     However, Partridge’s information is second-hand, and requires verification.

   • 2014, Jill Mann, Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory‎^[2]:

     The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.

4. (of cigarette または cigar smoke) inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.

   exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues

副詞

secondhand (not comparable)

1. In a used or previously-owned condition.
   • 1996, Peter Golding, Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator, →ISBN, page 50:

     It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.

   • 2004, Ruth Doan MacDougall, Henrietta Snow, →ISBN, page 47:

     He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.

2. indirectly

形容詞

second hand (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of secondhand.

使用する際の注意点

• secondhand and second-hand may be preferred spellings for the adjective meaning "not new", to avoid confusion with the noun "second hand" referring to the hand of a clock or watch.

名詞

second hand (複数形 second hands)

1. On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/

別の表記

• secondhand
• second-hand

形容詞

second hand (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of secondhand

使用する際の注意点

• secondhand and second-hand may be preferred spellings for the adjective meaning "not new", to avoid confusion with the noun "second hand" referring to the hand of a clock or watch.

関連する語

• at second hand

名詞

second hand (複数形 second hands)

1. An intermediate person or means; intermediary.
   • 1826, Walter Scott, editor, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin‎^[1], page 135:

     “My Lord Oxford, by a second hand, proposed my being his chaplain, which I, by a second hand, excused.

   • 1832, James Sheridan Knowles, The Magdalen, and other tales‎^[2], page 3:

     Under certain circumstances there is always a danger in a young man's playing the benefactor towards the other sex, in his own person. A thousand times better do it by a second hand — engage the services of some kind aunt or female cousin.

派生語

• at second hand

語源 2

second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”)

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkənd ˌhænd/

名詞

second hand (複数形 second hands)

1. On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed.