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Meanings of back in English
The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.
Portuguese
às avessas Synonyms
Examples for "backward"
Examples for "backward"
1
Of course, we can't travel backward in time: nobody can do that.
2
You can't look backward here; you have to look to the future.
3
Unfortunately, both writers are attempting to move forward while actually facing backward.
4
It's a backward place, and there's no high society to speak of.
5
Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour.
1
You begin with the end result and work backwards to the causes.
2
I can't believe we have gone backwards in this way, said Bond.
3
The only forward movement on this case has come from going backwards.
4
Start with the end goal and work your way backwards from there.
5
I decided to work backwards, to search for light among the shadows.
1
I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
2
Previously they were painted, and had a gummy, sticky influence rearwards upon peoples clothes.
3
A thick and continual stream of wounded flowed rearwards.
4
Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.
5
The marvellous ceremonial slipped rearwards.
Usage of back in English
1
However, Australian industry bodies and state governments back new investment in agriculture.
2
People are getting back to work, a North Sea trade source said.
3
That takes away the power to use good information to fight back.
4
The government says the future will be different; they will come back.
5
Already, this week has seen BP scale back its North Sea operation.
6
Financial problems forced it to scale back its route network last year.
7
O'Grady said: We're at risk of going back to 19th-century working conditions.
8
Fishing boats were called back to port from the South China Sea.
9
Which brings us back to possible parallels with Europe's Thirty Years' War.
10
Example: You injured your back in January of 1997 while at work.
11
He asked the army to help bring the situation back to normal.
12
A booming economy, job growth, returning migrants: the good times are back.
13
They went back to work today with better pay and better conditions.
14
We believe that Britain needs to get back its democracy, he said.
15
The problem: This was impossible according to the thinking back in 1895.
16
The authorities' main concern back then was the safety and fire regulations.
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Translations for back
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Back across language varieties
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