Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BACKWARD

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Definitions of BACKWARD

1. At, near or towards the rear of something.
2. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
3. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
4. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
5. In a reversed order or sequence.
6. By way of reflection; reflexively.
7. The state behind or past.
8. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
9. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
10. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
11. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
12. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
13. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
14. Toward or into the past.
15. (obsolete) In the past.
16. Indicating position or direction.
17. (figuratively) Expressing lack of development or advancement.
18. (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.

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Examples of Using BACKWARD in a Sentence

• It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it one of the first consoles with backward compatibility.
• In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.
• The reaction rates of the forward and backward reactions are generally not zero, but they are equal.
• Ethernet has since been refined to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, and longer link distances, but retains much backward compatibility.
• A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backward passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage.
• The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles.
• In gridiron football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the opponents' goal line.
• In primates, and specifically in humans, the labia majora (: labium majus), also known as the outer lips or outer labia, are two prominent longitudinal skin folds that extend downward and backward from the mons pubis to the perineum.
• After invading a host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern, thus retro (backward).
• The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.
• In cinematography, a tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.
• z/OS has the attributes of modern operating systems but also retains much of the older functionality that originated in the 1960s and is still in regular use—z/OS is designed for backward compatibility.
• The backward channel is usually used for transmission of request, supervisory, acknowledgement, or error-control signals.
• The law is also satisfied in meta-materials, which allow light to be bent "backward" at a negative angle of refraction with a negative refractive index.
• A crab canon (also known by the Latin form of the name, canon cancrizans; as well as retrograde canon, canon per recte et retro or canon per rectus et inversus) is an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward.
• The series mostly maintains backward compatibility with the S/360, allowing an easy migration path for customers; this, plus improved performance, were the dominant themes of the product announcement.
• It became a fast kicking step, kicking the feet, both forward and backward and later done with a tap.
• The card slots are backward compatible for the original 16-bit card, older slots are not forward compatible with newer cards.
• Bi-directional vehicle, a tram or train or any other vehicle that can be controlled from either end and can move forward or backward with equal ease without any need to be turned around.
• The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.

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