rear

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He said, We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

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Quick take

the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear"

noun

the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"

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 rear.

noun

the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear"

noun

the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"

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

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

noun

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

verb

stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror"

verb

bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"

verb

rise up; "The building rose before them"

verb

cause to rise up

verb

construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

adjective

located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side"

Example sentences

He said, We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

I plan to put iOS and Apple in my rear view mirror.

When winter hit hard, the issue was the driver cabin and the rear doors.

It has 6 ton front axle and in the rear it has an 11 ton and an additional 6 or 8 ton axle.

The pictures only show the tail section -- that's the rear rotor in the photos..

Blackout curtains between driver cabin and rear area.

Running a mail server is an unbelievable pain in the rear from an IT perspective.

The old habits - working too much, exercising too little, and eating out a little too often - still rear their head.

The pre-explosion and slower speed could also explain the minimal damage to the palm tree and the facts the rear tires rested against the curb.

I interview, and one of them has the right mix of board members to think that a young and energetic "shooting star" is just what they want to kick their revenue in the rear.

Even with this rear-guard action in New Jersey, Teslas can be bought direct from the manufacturer just a short distance away or via remote ordering.

Tricking physics is a bit more interesting, a good example would be McLaren's F-Duct which used fancy fluid dynamics to turn a driver's leg into an on/off switch for drag on the rear wing.

The power cars are more than capable of handling the load - during the first few months of Acela operation, there was a problem with the network connection that linked the front and rear power cars.

It might just be me, mainly because I drive an "old" car that doesn't dim/adjust my rear view mirror based on others drivers lights, but I find the uber brightness of other drivers lights to be a real pain these days.

Samsung was recognised by the court for having leveraged such conditions of the rear surface to clearly differentiate its tablet products through 'visible detailing.

Warren Ellis's excelent "How to see the future"[1], addresses why we're perpetually bored by the times we live in, and are always nostalgic about some bygone golden age: ...We look at the present day through a rear-view mirror.

The court found the most vivid differences in the rear surface design, a part of tablets that allows designers a high degree of freedom for creativity, as there are no display panels, buttons, or any technical functions.

Huibert has been working in the automotive industry for over 20 years, and was responsible for the rear suspension design of the Lincoln LS and Jaguar S-type as well as numerous advanced chassis design concepts at Ford.

Having seen mostly robotic cars in real life, and human-driven cars getting in accidents on TV and in movies, might the child of the future react with terror when the robotic chauffeur intones, human driver detected, approaching from rear?

Create something that can sense the world in the ways that we can comprehend, and painstakingly rear it, collecting data, automating and hard-coding what we can, until we have a set of error metrics, motivations, data, and environment in which we begin to see the thousand different skills called 'intelligence' that humans take for granted.