Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- At or near the rear.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- In arrears; overdue.
- Moving or operating backward.
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
Substantiivi
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A ferryboat.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The part of something that goes last.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (transitive) To support.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To row backward with (oars).
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
Adverbi
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- In a manner that impedes.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
Esimerkit
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- Go in the back door of the house.
- I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
- They took a back road.
- back rent
- back action
- "U" in "rude" is a back vowel.
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
- He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[...]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- Sit all the way back in your chair.
- Step back from the curb.
- Fear held him back.
- If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.
- Could you please scratch my back?
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
- I hurt my back lifting those crates.
- He got his hand on her behind and caressed her firm, ample flesh.[...]"You got some back on you, girl."
- I still need to finish the back of your dress.
- Can you fix the back of this chair?
- Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice
- He sat in the back of the room.
- Turn the book over and look at the back.
- The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
- Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the back.
- Tap it with the back of your knife.
- We'll meet out in the back of the library.
- I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
- The car was near the back of the train.
- The backs were lined up in an I formation.
- [...]Rovers were also aided by some poor defending from West Brom, whose lapses at the back undid their excellent work on the ball and condemned Roberto di Matteo's Baggies side to a third straight defeat.
- The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
- This project / Should have a back or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof.
- The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
- The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.
- Put some back into it!
- Could I get a martini with a water back?
- [...]as delivered by a tanner the average weight of a back and two strips would be about 42 pounds.
- the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’.” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
- I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race?
- And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
- to back oxen
- The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
- I will back him [a horse] straight.
- Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, / Appeared to me.
- to back books
- a garden[...]with a vineyard backed
- the chalk cliffs which back the beach
- So this was my future home, I thought![...]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- to back a letter; to back a note or legal document
- to back the oars
- Back the truck into this spot, so we can unload it.
- Which candidate for president are you backing?
- Go in through the back door.
- He gave back the money.
- Go towards the back of the bus
- I'll back you all the way, whatever happens
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | backed | Imperfekti | backed |
| Partisiipin preesens | backing | Monikko | backs |
| Komparatiivi | backer | Komparatiivi | more back |
| Komparatiivi | further back | Superlatiivi | backest |
| Superlatiivi | most back | Superlatiivi | furthest back |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | backs |
Luokat
- Adjektiivit
- Adverbit
- Alkoholijuomat
- Brittienglanti
- Fonetiikka
- Germaanisista kantakielistä johdetut sanat
- Indoeurooppalaisista kantakielistä johdetut sanat
- Kaivostoiminta
- Kuvaannollinen
- Laki
- Luvuttomat sanat
- Merenkulku
- Muinaisenglannista johdetut sanat
- Painaminen
- Perussanat
- Ranskasta johdetut sanat
- Slangi
- Substantiivit
- Urheilu
- Vanhentuneet sanat
- Verbit