Crossword clues for sec
sec
- Market watcher, briefly
- Market watchdog, for short
- Like some sparkling wines
- Like moderately dry champagne
- IPO overseer
- Fairly dry
- Dry, to wine lovers
- Dry, to a vintner
- Dry, on a wine label
- Division for a min
- Cos's reciprocal
- Brief moment, for short
- Brief bit
- Blink of an eye, for short
- Bit of a min
- 1/60th of a minute: Abbr
- 1/60th of a minute (abbr.)
- 1/3600 of an hour: Abbr
- 1/3,600 of an hour: Abbr
- "Wait, hang on a ___"
- "Wait just a ___ ..."
- "Wait a __!"
- "Now wait just a ___!"
- "Just one ___!" ("I'll be there momentarily!")
- "Just a __"
- "Just a ___!" ("I'll be right with you!")
- "Hold it just a ___"
- ''Hold on a ___!''
- You may be asked to hold on for one
- Word on Chablis labels
- Word on a champagne bottle
- With very little sugar, on some labels
- Wink of an eye
- Wine-list word
- Wine rating
- Wall Street watchdog: Abbr
- Wall Street watchdog org
- Wall Street regulator: Abbr
- Wall St. monitor
- Wall St. enforcer
- Waiting time?
- Wait a____
- Vermouth quality
- Unit of time, abbr
- Unit of time smaller than a min and way smaller than a...ho
- UGA's conf
- Triple ___ (type of liqueur)
- Triple ___ (orange liqueur in a cosmopolitan)
- Triple ___ (mixed drink ingredient)
- Triple ___ (margarita ingredient)
- Triple ___ (liqueur)
- Trig class calculation
- Trade-overseeing org
- Tiny time
- Time unit: Abbr
- Time unit, abbr
- Time unit shorter than a min and definitely shorter than an hou
- Tan over sin
- Small unit of time?
- Small tick
- Small amount of time?
- Shot-clock abbr
- Short, short time
- Short while, for short
- Short time to wait
- Short span, for short
- Short moment
- Short instant
- Shake or wink
- Sarbanes-Oxley enforcer, for short
- Relative of brut
- Relative of a jiff
- Regulatory group: Abbr
- Rather dry
- Quick time period
- Quick time
- Quick moment, quickly
- Quick instance
- Part of a minute, briefly
- One tick, briefly
- One of 604,800 in a wk
- One of 60 in a minute, briefly
- Not quite brut
- Not even a min
- NASA countdown unit
- Moderately dry, with wines
- Minute part: abbr
- Minute part (Abbr.)
- Minute div
- Min. segment
- Min. divided by 60
- Min part
- Market-watching org.that missed Madoff
- Market watcher: Abbr
- LSU's conference
- LSU conference
- Less dry than brut
- League for LSU
- League for L.S.U
- Just a minute, wait a ...
- Just a ____!
- Just a ___
- Investor protection org
- Investment Advisers Act enforcer
- I'll only be a ____
- How long to hold on?
- Holding-on period?
- Hardly a long time
- Fraction of a deg
- Financial watchdog, for short
- Dry, to Dauphine
- Dry, on wine labels
- Dry, like champagne
- Dry, in a wine shop
- Dry, for champagne
- Dry, as vermouth
- Dry, as in zin
- Dry in a cellar
- Dry as in wine
- Dry as champagne
- Demi-___ (champagne designation)
- Credit crunch overseer
- Corp. finance regulator
- Clock tick, briefly
- Christopher Cox's org
- Champagne style
- Champagne adjective
- Chablis descriptor
- Cabinet title: Abbr
- Cabinet man: Abbr
- Cabernet word
- Brut's opposite
- Brief timespan, briefly
- Brief time (found in all four theme answers)
- Brief interval, briefly
- Big Board's big brother
- Big Board's "big brother"
- Big Board overseer, briefly
- Bama's conf
- Auburn's conf
- Agcy. active during the credit crisis
- Adjective applied to champagne
- A very short time: Colloq
- 1/60 min
- 1/3,600 of an hr
- (Of wine) dry
- “Just a ___!”
- "Wait just a ___"
- "Two shakes"
- "Now hold on a ___!"
- "Just one ___!" ("Hang on!")
- "Just a" moment
- "Just a ---!"
- "Just a ___" ("Wait!")
- "Just a ___!" ("One moment!")
- "Just a ___!" ("Hang on!")
- "Just a ___!" ("Be there momentarily!")
- "Just a ___!" ("Be right there!")
- "Just a ___ . . ."
- "In a __"
- "I'll be with you in a ___!"
- "Hold on a ____..."
- "Hold on a ___ . . . "
- "Hang on just a ___!"
- "Hang on a ___!" ("Be right there!")
- "Give me just a ___!"
- "Gimme one ___"
- "Gimme a ___!" ("Just a moment!")
- "Gimme a ___!" ("Be patient!")
- "Be with you in a __"
- "Be there in a ___!"
- 'Wait a --!'
- 'Just one --!'
- 'Just a --'
- 'Just a --!'
- 'Hold on a --!'
- ''Just a __!''
- ''Hold on just a ___!''
- Like zinfandel
- "Wait a _____!"
- "Just a _____"
- Wine description
- Instant, for short
- Dry, as wine
- Wall St. regulator
- Brief time, briefly
- Jiffy
- Champagne designation
- N.Y.S.E. regulator
- Watchdog grp. for 29-Down
- Like Chianti and Chablis
- "Wait a ___!" ("Hold on!")
- Brief moment?
- Not long to wait
- Like some wines
- Twinkling of an eye, say
- Short time, for short
- "Hold on a ___!"
- Flash
- Blink of an eye, briefly
- Jiff
- Brut alternative
- Dry, to oenologists
- Triple ___ (orange liqueur)
- Dry, in Versailles
- "Just a ___!" ("Hold on!")
- "Hold on a ___"
- Dry, in Napa
- Not sweet, as wine
- Wine label word
- No time at all
- Fed. monitor of stock fraud
- Wall St. watchdog
- Very short wait, in short
- Brief instant
- Instant, in slang
- Instant, briefly
- Tick of the clock
- Heartbeat, so to speak
- League for L.S.U. and Mississippi St.
- Org. that protects investors
- Fraction of a min.
- 1/60 of a min.
- See 58-Down
- Half a mo
- Part of a min.
- "One ___!"
- Moderately dry, as champagne
- With 39-Across, instant
- Brief moment, briefly
- "Just a ___" ("hold on")
- Regulatory inits. since 1934
- Brief wait
- Wall Street overseer, for short
- Org. for Bulldogs, Gators and Tigers
- Dry, on Champagne bottles
- Moment, informally
- Brief time, in brief
- Ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side
- 1/60 of a minute: Abbr
- The basic unit of time adopted under the System International d'Unites
- Like a vermouth
- Like some champagne
- Adjective for champagne
- AMEX overseer
- N.Y.S.E. watchdog
- Like Chablis
- Wall Street watchdog agcy.
- Quality of wine
- Two shakes
- Sweeter than brut
- Trice, informally
- Big Board's Big Brother: Abbr
- Sixtieth of a min.
- Whipstitch
- Word on a wine bottle
- Wine classification
- Like soave
- Wine descriptor
- Min. part
- Word on a wine label
- Dry, as champagne
- Time period, for short
- Big Board's Big Brother: Abbr.
- Brut's relative
- Govt. agency since '34
- Vermouth designation
- Like certain wines
- Wine word
- Short time to wait, in brief
- Wine quality
- Champagne quality
- N.Y.S.E. and Amex regulator
- Very short time needed to get dry
- Like some wines, this doesn't last long!
- League for L.S.U. and Mississippi St
- Dry period quickly over
- Dry in bits would be halves
- Dry a very short time
- Dry (of wine)
- Description of wine's function
- Time unit (abbr.)
- Trig function
- Very dry
- Religious group
- Dry, in a way
- Fraction of a minute: Abbr
- Part of a minute: Abbr
- Champagne word
- Wine specification
- Time div
- Wine designation
- Like some wine
- "Just a __!"
- Champagne choice
- NYSE overseer
- Min. fraction
- Hr. fraction
- "Wait just a ___!"
- Wine adjective
- Wine-label word
- Short time?
- Not as dry as brut
- "Gimme a __"
- Wine option
- NASDAQ overseer
- Brief flash
- Triple ___ (liqueur variety)
- "Hold on just a ___!"
- "Gimme a ___" ("Gonna do it soon")
- Word on wine bottles
- Wall St. overseer
- NYSE watchdog
- NYSE regulator
- Like Chianti
- Champagne label word
- Triple ____
- Time meas
- Dry, as in wine
- Dry as wine
- Champagne descriptor
- Brief period, briefly
- "Hold on a __!"
- "Hey, wait a ___!"
- You might ask a waiter to give you one?
- Wall St. police
- Small part of an hr
- Short time, informally
- Org. that oversees trades
- NYSE watcher
- Moment, for short
- Minute part of a min
- Min. division
- Fraction of a minute, for short
- Dry, to a winetaster
- Brief time period, briefly
- Brief moment in time
- Bit of time
- "Wait, hang on one ___"
- "Wait just a __"
- "Hold on for just a ___!"
- "Hold on a __"
- "Hang on a ___!" ("I'll be right there!")
- "Be there in a ___"
- Wait a ____!: hold on
- Vintner's word
- Triple ___ (liqueur used in margaritas)
- Triple __: liqueur
- Texas A&M joined it in 2012
- Sixtieth of a min
- Short short time?
- Short amount of time?
- Quick tick
- NASDAQ regulator
- Market-overseeing org
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1956, conversational shortening of second (n.).
of wine, "dry," French sec (10c.), from Latin siccus "dry" (also source of Italian secco); see siccative.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) second#Noun_2, (frac: 60) of a minute. 2 (context colloquial English) (abbreviationsecond) (gloss: A short indeterminate period of time.)
WordNet
n. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: second, s]
ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: secant]
an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors [syn: Securities and Exchange Commission]
adj. (of champagne) moderately dry [syn: unsweet]
Wikipedia
Sec (wine), is a French term used to indicate the sweetness level of a wine.
SEC, Sec, or Seč may also refer to:
Seč is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic with approximately 1,700 inhabitants.
Villages Hoješín, Javorka, Kraskov, Počátky, Proseč, Prosíčka, Přemilov, Ústupky and Žďárec u Seče are administrative parts of Seč.
Seč dam was built next to the town.
Seč is name of several locations in central Europe:
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Seč (Chrudim District), a city in the Pardubice Region (Chrudim District) of the Czech Republic
- Seč Dam next to the village of Seč
- Seč, Kočevje, an abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje, Slovenia
- Seč, Novo Mesto, an abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
- Seč, Prievidza District, a village in the Trenčín Region (Prievidza District) of Slovakia
Seč is a village and municipality ( obec) in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of , and had a population of 141 (as of 2 October 2006).
Seč lies approximately north-west of Ústí nad Orlicí, east of Pardubice, and east of Prague.
Usage examples of "sec".
Ryan bolstered his blaster, seeing that the double sec doors into the section were firmly closed.
Seated directly behind him, General Grisham held several folders in case they were needed, but the Sec Def waved them off.
Though briefing without the aid of notes or Power Point slides, the Sec Def was speaking quickly.
The Sec Def had been complaining about the poor quality of human intelligence collection at the CIA for years and as far as he was concerned, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, signed by the President on 17 December 2004, and the creation of the DNI had made things worse instead of better.
Apparently your experts at Homeland Security think the Sec Def and the Chairman are too vulnerable.
Prague ordered the pilot, who expertly sideslipped his heliTurcotte watched as the large disk that Prague had called copter so that they were now flying sideways, with the nose Bouncer Three made an abrupt jump move to the right, of the aircraft--and the chain gun hung off the skid- changed directions just short of 180 degrees in a split sec- pointed toward the pickup.
HITCHING UP THEIR PANTS, two sec men walked from the lav of the Shiloh ville situated near the stone quarry when one of them stopped in his tracks.
A group of nondescript government vehicles had been waiting on the tarmac for the sec retary of state and her entourage.
Davichaux expected it to be the taciturn Kentuckian, Nate Ruell, behind the wheel, with a couple of sec men riding shotgun.
I would survive on out-of-date pate and vacuum-packed saucisson sec while I worked on my poem.
Now he relaxed, knowing that he still had four rounds left in the weapon, knowing that all the sec men, and the unlucky driver, were dead or dying, fingers scrabbling in the pools of bloodied mud, limbs moving under and over each other.
He stirred up constant intrigues among sec men and toadies, then conducted bloody purges of those he considered the most dangerous.
The sec men and high-level toadies sitting around the long table jumped to their feet when he entered.
Some sec men and toadies were crouched at one end of the patio, doing something along the steel-pipe railing.
The handful of very important toadies cowered on the couch, and nervous sec men were pacing with their blasters at the ready.