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Meaning:
Adjective:
- comparable phonetics Produced in the back of the mouth.
- Far from the main area.
- Near the rear.
- Not current.
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Adverb:
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- (Not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
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Noun:
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house
- figurative Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
- mining The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- nautical The keel and keelson of a ship.
- obsolete That part of the body that bears clothing.
- printing The inside margin of a page.
- uncountable Effort, usually physical.
- uncountable Large and attractive buttocks.
- sports In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The rear of body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
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Verb:
- To support.
- of an anchor to lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power
- of a square sail to brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship
- of the wind the change direction contrary to its normal pattern (anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern)
- To go in the reverse direction.
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