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back

English

  1. 🔊 (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
  2. 🔊 a support that you can lean against while sitting
    “the back of the dental chair was adjustable”
  3. 🔊 the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
    “they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back”
  4. 🔊 the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
    “his back was nicely tanned”
  5. 🔊 the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
    “he stood at the back of the stage”
  6. 🔊 (football) a person who plays in the backfield
  7. 🔊 the side that goes last or is not normally seen
    “he wrote the date on the back of the photograph”
  8. 🔊 the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
    “the book had a leather binding”
  9. 🔊 the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    “the fall broke his back”
  10. 🔊 in or to or toward a past time
    “set the clocks back an hour”
  11. 🔊 at or to or toward the back or rear
    “he moved back”
  12. 🔊 in repayment or retaliation
    “we paid back everything we had borrowed”
  13. 🔊 in or to or toward a former location
    “she went back to her parents' house”
  14. 🔊 in or to or toward an original condition
    “he went back to sleep”
  15. 🔊 in reply
    “he wrote back three days later”
  16. 🔊 strengthen by providing with a back or backing
  17. 🔊 establish as valid or genuine
    “Can you back up your claims?”
  18. 🔊 shift to a counterclockwise direction
    “the wind backed”
  19. 🔊 travel backward
    “back into the driveway”
  20. 🔊 cause to travel backward
    “back the car into the parking spot”
  21. 🔊 support financial backing for
    “back this enterprise”
  22. 🔊 be behind
    “He plumped for the Labor Party”
  23. 🔊 be in back of
    “My garage backs their yard”
  24. 🔊 place a bet on
    “Which horse are you backing?”
  25. 🔊 give support or one's approval to
    “I'll second that motion”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 costado back
  2. 🔊 cucucho back
  3. 🔊 de nuevo back
  4. 🔊 defensa back
  5. 🔊 dorso back
  6. 🔊 espalda back
  7. 🔊 fondo back
  8. 🔊 de vuelta back, returned
  9. 🔊 espaldar back, posterior
  10. 🔊 re- back, backwards
  11. 🔊 revés back, reverse side
  12. 🔊 arredro back, backward, aback
  13. 🔊 reverso back, back side, reverse
  14. 🔊 trasero back, back-side, rear-side, posterior

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