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UK
/bˈækbəʊn/
]
[ US /ˈbækˌboʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌboʊn/ ]
NOUN
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a central cohesive source of support and stability
faith is his anchor
he is the linchpin of this firm
the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money -
fortitude and determination
he didn't have the guts to try it -
the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved
the title and author were printed on the spine of the book -
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
the fall broke his back -
the part of a network that connects other networks together
the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic
How To Use backbone In A Sentence
- He lacks any backbone, as becomes apparent during the toe-curling dinner party that forms the play.
- Snakes have hundreds of similar vertebrae in their backbones, as can be seen in the skeleton of a python embryo.
- Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
- We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
- Take a chopper and then break the backbones near the bottom of the cut (this is called chining).
- This wine has a round mouthfeel but carries all this fruit and flowers on a firm backbone of acid.
- The storage network backbone provides connectivity for hundreds of storage and application resources without wasting costly ports to connect other switches.
- All those recent results suggest a flexibility of the backbone conformational structure and several stable configurations are proposed and debated.
- The three sonatas are the creative backbone, each not so very much less challenging to the listener than to the player this one well in command! Times, Sunday Times
- Your backbone (vertebral column) is actually a stack of more than 30 small bones called vertebrae.