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Meanings of back in English

Portuguese
espinhaço
Catalan
columna vertebral
Spanish
espalda
Wikidata

The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.

espinhaço
Russian
спина
Portuguese
costas
Spanish
espalda
Catalan
esquena
Wikidata

Body part.

Related terms
спина
Synonyms
Examples for "human back"
Examples for "human back"
1
The chair back or the desk chair should fit the human back.
Vitality Supreme
2
The Communities liked the broad expanse of skin that the human back offered.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
3
Nobody has ever tried to bring a human back to life after preservation.
BBC
4
At last he saw a human back.
The Son of Tarzan
5
Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it.
Wired
Russian
полусредний
Spanish
lateral
Catalan
lateral
Wikidata

Handball position.

Related terms
полусредний
Portuguese
às avessas

At or to or toward the back or rear.

às avessas
Usage of back in English
1
However, Australian industry bodies and state governments back new investment in agriculture.
Reuters
2
People are getting back to work, a North Sea trade source said.
Reuters
3
That takes away the power to use good information to fight back.
Wired
4
The government says the future will be different; they will come back.
The Guardian
5
Already, this week has seen BP scale back its North Sea operation.
The Guardian
6
Financial problems forced it to scale back its route network last year.
Reuters
7
O'Grady said: We're at risk of going back to 19th-century working conditions.
The Guardian
8
Fishing boats were called back to port from the South China Sea.
Reuters
9
Which brings us back to possible parallels with Europe's Thirty Years' War.
Reuters
10
Example: You injured your back in January of 1997 while at work.
Reuters
11
He asked the army to help bring the situation back to normal.
Reuters
12
A booming economy, job growth, returning migrants: the good times are back.
The Irish Times
13
They went back to work today with better pay and better conditions.
For the love of mike
14
We believe that Britain needs to get back its democracy, he said.
The Guardian
15
The problem: This was impossible according to the thinking back in 1895.
Wired
16
The authorities' main concern back then was the safety and fire regulations.
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