Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BACK

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Definitions of BACK

1. At or near the rear.
2. Not current.
3. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. Towards, into or in the past.
9. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
10. Away from the front or from an edge.
11. In a manner that impedes.
12. To a later point in time. See also put back.
13. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
14. That which is farthest away from the front.
15. A support or resource in reserve.
16. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
17. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
18. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
19. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
20. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
21. To row backward with (oars).
22. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
23. A ferryboat.
24. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
25. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
26. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
27. So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
28. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
29. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
30. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
31. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
32. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
33. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
34. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
35. (transitive) To support.
36. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
37. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
38. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
39. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
40. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
41. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
42. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
43. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
44. A surname.
45. A settlement on the Isle of in Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4840).
46. (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
47. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
48. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.

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Examples of Using BACK in a Sentence

• Mouthwash, mouth rinse, oral rinse, or mouth bath is a liquid which is held in the mouth passively or swirled around the mouth by contraction of the perioral muscles and/or movement of the head, and may be gargled, where the head is tilted back and the liquid bubbled at the back of the mouth.
• The origins of the company are complex, dating back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprises (Horch and the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch.
• Dating back to the late 8th century, Aarhus was founded as a harbour settlement at the mouth of the Aarhus River and quickly became a trade hub.
• Although it was partially formed out of the former Soviet Army forces stationed in the Armenian SSR (mostly units of the 7th Guards Army of the Transcaucasian Military District), the military of Armenia can be traced back to the founding of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918.
• The rock ledges of Big Spring contain over 100 petroglyphs (dating back to AD 600–1200), the majority consisting of three indentations that form faces.
• The fossil record of this family can be traced back to the Late Oligocene (Deseadan in the SALMA classification).
• The ornamental use of agate was common in Ancient Greece, in assorted jewelry and in the seal stones of Greek warriors, while bead necklaces with pierced and polished agate date back to the 3rd millennium BCE in the Indus Valley civilisation.
• He was the son of Fruela I and Munia, a Basque woman captured and brought back to Asturias by the former following a military campaign.
• Welby is the 105th person to hold the position, as part of a line of succession going back to the "Apostle to the English", Augustine of Canterbury, who was sent to the island by the church in Rome and arrived in 597.
• The area of Aargau and the surrounding areas were controlled by the Helvetians, a tribe of Celts, as far back as 200 BC.
• Aragonese, which developed in portions of the Ebro basin, can be traced back to the High Middle Ages.
• The city served as the capital of West Germany from its formation in 1949 until 1990 and as the capital of reunited Germany from 1990 until 1999 when the seat of government was moved back to Berlin.
• It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.
• It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1600 years.
• Fragments of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls containing verses from Numbers have been dated as far back as the late seventh or early sixth century BC.
• They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet, and tails that are flat and scaly.
• BITC is sometimes used in conjunction with "real" machine-readable timecode but more often used in copies of original material onto a nonbroadcast format such as VHS so that the VHS copies can be traced back to their master tape and the original timecodes easily located.
• A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks.
• The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India.
• The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization.

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