back

/bæk/
Adjective
  1. of an earlier date
    • back issues of the magazine
  2. located at or near the back of an animal
    • back (or hind) legs
    • the hinder part of a carcass
  3. related to or located at the back
    • the back yard
    • the back entrance
Verb
  1. strengthen by providing with a back or backing
  2. establish as valid or genuine
    • Can you back up your claims?
  3. shift to a counterclockwise direction
    • the wind backed
  4. place a bet on
    • Which horse are you backing?
    • I'm betting on the new horse
  5. be in back of
    • My garage backs their yard
  6. support financial backing for
    • back this enterprise
  7. cause to travel backward
    • back the car into the parking spot
  8. give support or one's approval to
    • I'll second that motion
    • I can't back this plan
    • endorse a new project
  9. travel backward
    • back into the driveway
    • The car backed up and hit the tree
  10. be behind; approve of
    • He plumped for the Labor Party
    • I backed Kennedy in 1960
Noun
  1. (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
  2. a support that you can lean against while sitting
    • the back of the dental chair was adjustable
  3. the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
    • they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back
  4. the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
    • the book had a leather binding
  5. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    • the fall broke his back
  6. (football) a person who plays in the backfield
  7. the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
    • he stood at the back of the stage
    • it was hidden in the rear of the store
  8. the side that goes last or is not normally seen
    • he wrote the date on the back of the photograph
  9. the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
    • his back was nicely tanned
Adverb
  1. in repayment or retaliation
    • we paid back everything we had borrowed
    • he hit me and I hit him back
    • I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher
  2. in reply
    • he wrote back three days later
  3. in or to or toward a past time
    • set the clocks back an hour
    • never look back
    • lovers of the past looking fondly backward
  4. in or to or toward an original condition
    • he went back to sleep
  5. 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
  6. in or to or toward a former location
    • she went back to her parents' house

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The librarian shelves the back issues of the magazine in the archive.