secondary

[ˈsekənderi]

Definition:
1. The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.
2. Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil.
3. Of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.
4. Inferior in rank or status.

Use 'secondary' in a sentence:

1. They form an intermediate social level between the individual and larger "secondary" institutions based on impersonal relationships.
2. Over a third of those now at secondary school in Wales attend schools with over 1,000 pupils.
3. The secondary mirror must be adapted during the process of grinding and polishing to this other form.
4. Experience is what matters—age is of secondary importance.
5. One in four pupils leaving secondary school can't read or write properly.
6. Characters that did represent a minority culture usually had secondary roles in the books.
7. I went to a secondary school in South Town.
8. Matter is primary and mind is secondary.
9. Examinations for the GCSE are taken after about five years of secondary education.
10. I taught math, English and physics at Chamasiri Secondary School while I was a teacher in Kenya.
11. According to historian Richard White, even the attribution of secondary responsibility may not be supported by the evidence.
12. The growing dominance of secondary earners among the unemployed and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably relieved the consequences of joblessness.
13. In war, to attack the mind is first, to attack a city secondary.
14. In addition, many elementary and secondary schools operate libraries for use by students and teachers.
15. There was less bullying in secondary schools, with about one in twenty-five suffering persistent bullying, but these cases may be particularly recalcitrant.
16. The Sheffield investigation, which involved sixteen primary schools and seven secondary schools, found that most schools succeeded in reducing bullying.
17. The most frequent reaction causing the self-sealing of rocks with high secondary permeability is argillization.
18. When you are 11, you would move on to a secondary school.
19. She taught history at a secondary school.
20. Still, Krech attributes secondary if not primary responsibility for the extinctions to the Paleoindians, arguing that humans have produced local extinctions elsewhere.
21. We should use our secondary forces to pin down several enemy columns.
22. He must have come to know those philosophers through secondary or tertiary sources.
23. The street erupted in a huge explosion, with secondary explosions in the adjoining buildings.
24. Compared with her achievements, her shortcomings are, after all, only secondary.
25. A distinction should be made between the primary and secondary tasks.
26. Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.
27. In some areas, the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data.
28. Examinations are taken after about five years of secondary education.
29. Compulsory education has enabled most migrant workers to finish secondary school.
30. Amid a secondary school course, a student should be interested enough in a subject to enjoy gaining knowledge for its own sake.
31. Paths and secondary roads were improved only at the request of communities who were willing to participate in construction and maintenance.
32. After that, I did careers work in secondary schools like the careers guidance people here is in the university.
33. We now need a step change in our secondary schools to match that achieved in our primaries.
34. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
35. It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body.
36. He had kidney cancer, with secondary tumours in the brain and lungs.
37. Entrance to universities and senior secondary schools was restricted.
38. They are mostly secondary school students.
39. The vast expansion in secondary education is putting an enormous strain on the system.
40. Sometimes primary group relationships evolve out of secondary group relationships.
41. More than five-thousand secondary school students have been expelled for cheating.
42. The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube.
43. She quotes secondary and primary sources without distinction.
44. Historians use a wide range of primary and secondary sources for their research.
45. That is just a secondary consideration.
46. They argue that human rights considerations are now of only secondary importance.
47. Also, large blocks thrown aside by the impact would form secondary craters surrounding the main crater.
48. Children usually transfer to secondary school at 11 or 12.
49. Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.
50. The actual damage to the brain cells is secondary to the damage caused to the blood supply.
51. Secondary xylem consists of pitted vessels, parenchyma fibers and rays.
52. The government provides free education at both primary and secondary school levels and provides some financial assistance for private schools.
53. At secondary school, most youngsters have mobile phones.
54. Experience is what matters ─ age is of secondary importance.