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But I'm scared, because in the back of my head I am pretty certain it will.

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Quick take

the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of back gathered in one view.

noun

the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"

noun

the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"

noun

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for back.

noun

the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"

noun

the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"

noun

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"

noun

(football) a person who plays in the backfield

noun

the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"

noun

the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding"

noun

the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back"

noun

a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable"

noun

(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

verb

be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

verb

travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"

verb

give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project"

verb

cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot"

verb

support financial backing for; "back this enterprise"

verb

be in back of; "My garage backs their yard"

verb

place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

verb

shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"

verb

establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"

verb

strengthen by providing with a back or backing

adjective

related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance"

adjective

located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass"

adjective

of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine"

adverb

in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house"

adverb

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"

See also: backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards

adverb

in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep"

adverb

in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"

adverb

in reply; "he wrote back three days later"

adverb

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"

Example sentences

But I'm scared, because in the back of my head I am pretty certain it will.

You have the source, you can change it, or pay someone to change it, you can contribute back.

I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says "He died peacefully in his sleep last night.

I'll back up what pg said with a data point from academic research.

The Internet needs to send a message back, and force her resignation in disgrace.

I was smoking on my fire escape, and saw a dude break a car window and steal a shopping bag out of the back seat.

The cell phones would come out to facilitate people getting together, and then they'd go back in your pocket.

Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box.

I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as "doing everything right".

Carmen M. Ortiz is running for higher office on the backs of high profile prosecutions, and now on the body of Aaron Swartz.

You can't have secret back doors for internal apps to get special priority access, not for ANY reason.

Please, come find the guy who took all of our illegal drug money and give it back to us so we can continue to say you aren't necessary.

It is still an art of software writing to try to automate listening to a learner's pronunciation for appropriate feedback on accuracy of pronunciation.

"I read a great article a while back that I unfortunately can't find now, but it talked about a CEO who thought he was having a casual "hey, I'm interested in developing my skills, can you mentor me a bit?

When I finally did get back on the grid, I had found that my brother, girlfriend, and work colleagues had all been desperately looking for me when I hadn't shown up to work, and had been calling hospitals and police stations.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy hell, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

Below, Babuskov raised the point that the endorsement system will obstruct useful back-and-forth discussions between sub-kilokarma users in buried threads that often takes the place of a private messaging system on HN.

Some people tried to argue back then that various protections offered by modern OSs and runtimes, such as address space randomization, and the availability of tools like Valgrind for finding memory access bugs, mitigates this.

When the US Government was forcing telecom by telecom to install taps into their business's core routing hubs Joseph Nacchio, the CEO at the time, dug his heels in demanding legal avenues to avoid turning his back on QWest's customers.

If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple.