Backing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• give financial, material, or moral support to
• supplement in order to strengthen
• be in favour of
• (in popular music) provide musical accompaniment to (a singer or musician)
• bet money on (a person or animal) winning a race or contest
• cover the back of (an article) in order to support, protect, or decorate it
• walk or drive backwards
• (of the wind) change direction anticlockwise around the points of the compass
• put (a sail) aback in order to slow the vessel down or assist in turning through the wind.
• (of a building or other structure) have its back facing or adjacent to
• lie behind or at the back of
• put a piece of music on the less important side of (a vinyl recording)
NOUN:
• a support
• the rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips
• the spine of a person or animal.
• the side or part of something that is away from the spectator or from the direction in which it moves or faces; the rear
• the position directly behind someone or something
• the side or part of an object that is not normally seen or used
• a player in a team game who plays in a defensive position behind the forwards
• the grounds of Cambridge colleges which back on to the River Cam.
• The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.
• That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.
• Support or aid given to a person or cause.
• The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.
• the act of providing approval and support
• something forming a back that is added for strengthening
• financial resources provided to make some project possible
• support
• the upper surface of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's back
• the main structure of a ship's hull or an aircraft's fuselage
• the part of a chair against which the sitter's back rests.
• the part of a garment that covers a person's back
• a person's back regarded as carrying a load or bearing an imposition
ADVERB:
• in the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards
• expressing movement of the body into a reclining position
• at a distance away
• losing by a specified margin
• so as to return to an earlier or normal position or condition
• at a place previously left or mentioned
• fashionable again
• in or into the past
• in return
• behind
ADJECTIVE:
• of or at the back of something
• in a remote or subsidiary position
• from or relating to the past
• directed towards the rear or in a reversed course
• (of a sound) articulated at the back of the mouth

Words related to BACKING

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Words that contain BACKING

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How to use BACKING in a sentence

• I got good backing in the bank, and I want you to be my little star.
• A tory adventurer named Bowles, who claimed to have the backing of the English Government, landed in the nation and set himself in opposition to McGillivray.
• With our eyes averted obstinately from the future we are backing towards disaster.
• Number one, there was no corporate house backing this effort nor did one have any savings to run it without any expected returns for the initial period.
• The sinews which lie along the back and on the belly were used as thread and string, and as backing for bows to give them elasticity and strength.
• The car was backing out! It was a desperate moment, for it seemed that we could not fail to be discovered.
• In case of serious difficulty, I could not actually count upon the backing of any one above the official with whom I then was dealing.
• So to place a sail that the wind blows along it, neither filling nor backing.
• The Palais des Tournelles was subsequently erected backing on to the Hotel Saint-Pol.
• The siding was a short one, and he knew that in backing down he must inevitably have shoved the rear end of his train out upon the main line at the lower switch.
• They have the courage of numbers and the prompt and forceful backing of a powerful fraternity across the Pacific.
• Edward had no good-will for a possible rival, but it was his interest to keep up the anarchy, and he had no scruple in backing up Charles.
• He seemed to delight in choosing unusual subjects and then backing me into a corner with an array of well-considered phrases that allowed me no opening for reply nor even comment.
• A quick, sliding movement of abject fear and she was erect, facing him and backing away silently.
• In backing up he must not get too close to the fielder he is backing, otherwise what is a wild throw to him will be likewise to the pitcher.
• A moment later he found himself backing up-stairs, followed closely by the pair.
• I was still laughing when I discovered that the boat had slowed to a crawl and we were backing in between two high cliffs.
• Besides backing up their pitchers in this fashion, both local and visiting athletes turned sensational plays.
• In the Catholic Church the young priests are eager workers for Sinn Fein, and in Ulster the laborers are backing their leaders in a plea for self-determination.
• Instead, he took a wide detour, and returned slowly, backing and filling to the point.
• Her attempt had no backing in play of feature, felicity of gesture, grace of diction.
• Nor should we become cowardly to the point of backing out of it altogether.
• But he was the kind of a partner I liked, and if he could see his way clear, he could depend on my backing him to the extent of my ability and credit.
• He was dodging about and backing, wholly refusing to go forward, and setting at defiance a boy who was striving to lead him onwards.
• A freight engine soon came to the spot, backing down the express car.
• A dam had formed below us and the water was backing up.
• Even with the best sort of a backing, it is always a ten-year pull for a youngster before he counts in the world.

Similar words containing BACK without suffix ing

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