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[ UK /bˈæk/ ]
[ UK /bˈæk/ ]
NOUN
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
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the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back -
the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
his back was nicely tanned -
the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
the book had a leather binding -
the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
it was hidden in the rear of the store
he stood at the back of the stage -
the side that goes last or is not normally seen
he wrote the date on the back of the photograph - (football) a person who plays in the backfield
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a support that you can lean against while sitting
the back of the dental chair was adjustable -
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
the fall broke his back
VERB
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support financial backing for
back this enterprise -
place a bet on
I'm betting on the new horse
Which horse are you backing? -
shift to a counterclockwise direction
the wind backed -
be in back of
My garage backs their yard -
be behind; approve of
He plumped for the Labor Party
I backed Kennedy in 1960 -
give support or one's approval to
I'll second that motion
I can't back this plan
endorse a new project -
travel backward
back into the driveway
The car backed up and hit the tree - strengthen by providing with a back or backing
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cause to travel backward
back the car into the parking spot -
establish as valid or genuine
Can you back up your claims?
ADVERB
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in repayment or retaliation
I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher
he hit me and I hit him back
we paid back everything we had borrowed -
in or to or toward a former location
she went back to her parents' house -
in reply
he wrote back three days later -
in or to or toward a past time
set the clocks back an hour
never look back
lovers of the past looking fondly backward -
at or to or toward the back or rear
he moved back
tripped when he stepped backward
she looked rearward out the window of the car -
in or to or toward an original condition
he went back to sleep
ADJECTIVE
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of an earlier date
back issues of the magazine -
related to or located at the back
the back yard
the back entrance -
located at or near the back of an animal
back (or hind) legs
the hinder part of a carcass
How To Use back In A Sentence
- Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.