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Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

Example: Could you please scratch my back?

Definition: That which is farthest away from the front.

Example: He sat in the back of the room.

Definition: Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.

Example: The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.

Definition: A support or resource in reserve.

Definition: The keel and keelson of a ship.

Example: The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.

Definition: The roof of a horizontal underground passage.

Definition: Effort, usually physical.

Example: Put some back into it!

Definition: A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.

Example: Could I get a martini with a water back?

Definition: Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To go in the reverse direction.

Example: the train backed into the station;  the horse refuses to back

Definition: To support.

Example: I back you all the way;  which horse are you backing in this race?

Definition: (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.

Definition: (of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.

Definition: (of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.

Definition: (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.

Definition: To push or force backwards.

Example: The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.

Definition: To get upon the back of; to mount.

Definition: To place or seat upon the back.

Definition: To make a back for; to furnish with a back.

Example: to back books

Definition: To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

Definition: To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

Example: to back a letter;  to back a note or legal document

Definition: (of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).

Definition: To row backward with (oars).

Example: to back the oars

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Near the rear.

Example: Go in the back door of the house.

Definition: Not current.

Example: I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.

Definition: Far from the main area.

Example: They took a back road.

Definition: In arrear; overdue.

Example: They still owe three months' back rent.

Definition: Moving or operating backward.

Example: back action

Definition: 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).

Example: The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: To or in a previous condition or place.

Example: 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.

Definition: Away from the front or from an edge.

Example: Sit all the way back in your chair.

Definition: In a manner that impedes.

Example: Fear held him back.

Definition: In a reciprocal manner; in return.

Example: If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.

Definition: Earlier, ago.

Example: I last saw him a day or two back.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/nɛk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

Example: Giraffes have long necks.

Definition: The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

Definition: The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

Definition: The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

Definition: The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.

Definition: The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

Definition: A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

Definition: A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.

Example: a neck forming the journal of a shaft

Definition: The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

Definition: The gorgerin of a capital.

Definition: The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

Definition: A person's life.

Example: to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck

Definition: A falsehood; a lie.

Definition: Shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore

Phonetic: "/nɛk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate

Example: Go neck yourself.

Definition: To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

Example: Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.

Definition: To drink rapidly.

Definition: To decrease in diameter.