Back is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to help or support
• 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)
• To get upon the back of; to mount.
• To place or seat upon the back.
• To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
• To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
• To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
• To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
• To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
• To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
• To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
• To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
• In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
• To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one\'s native place; to put a book back after reading it.
• To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
• (Of time) In times past; ago.
• Away from contact; by reverse movement.
• In concealment or reserve; in one\'s own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
• In a state of restraint or hindrance.
• In return, repayment, or requital.
• In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
• In arrear; as, to be back in one\'s rent.
• be behind; approve of
• travel backward
• give support or one\'s approval to
• cause to travel backward
• support financial backing for
• be in back of
• place a bet on
• shift to a counterclockwise direction
• establish as valid or genuine
• strengthen by providing with a back or backing
• (cause to) move backwards
NOUN:
• 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.
• rear part of the human body, from the neck to the pelvis
• A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
• A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
• In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
• An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
• The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
• The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
• The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
• The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
• A support or resource in reserve.
• The keel and keelson of a ship.
• The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
• the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
• the side that goes last or is not normally seen
• the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
• (football) a person who plays in the backfield
• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
• the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
• a support that you can lean against while sitting
• (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
• 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
• in or to or toward a former location
• at or to or toward the back or rear
• in or to or toward an original condition
• in or to or toward a past time
• in reply
• in repayment or retaliation
• at, to, or towards the rear
• 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
• Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
• Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
• Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
• related to or located at the back
• located at or near the back of an animal
• of an earlier date
• situated behind

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How to use BACK in a sentence

• I turned back to the room and went and kissed Babet, who was weeping.
• I fell back, convinced that he was right and that I had had a narrow escape from making an ass of myself.
• As he could hear nothing, he thought poor Veevee must be dead, and slowly and sadly turned back.
• Robinson wisely went back to Australia, and more wisely married an honest serving-maid.
• The mysteries of Back Cup would have been cleared up.
• She went ahead through the door by which they had first entered, and out into the garden at the back of the house.
• He would go on Saturday night and get back in time for his work on Monday morning.
• When the guide came back and took up the halter of my camel again, he went right on with the same story.
• But Carrie pulled the young man sharply back by the arm into the corridor, and shut the door behind her.
• She leaned back and drew her veil a little closer about her face.
• He turned lazily and leaned back against his saddle.
• We, in our own time, have got back to the dreary point of considering whether life be worth living.
• She went back to the southwest room then, and sat quietly down to her spinning.
• I walked back to the tower hastily and desperately, to face the worst that might happen before my courage cooled altogether.
• At the same time, the soldiers behind, having seen the back door open and shut, began firing at the rear windows, and one bullet hit Mosby in the abdomen.
• To advance further would mean we could not get back that night.
• She was to be taken back to the village from which she had fled, and there suffer by fire in the presence of the other villagers.
• Therefore come and give me back all my health and happiness.
• As he did so he leaped back, and to one side, with his right hand in his coat pocket.
• I may be away a year, and I may have to go to San Francisco in order to find a vessel that will bring me back.
• They brought a cow with them and a big collie whose back had been scarred by a lynx.
• The spoon placed in the rest will drain back into the kettle.
• The word was not spoken loud enough to be heard far away, but every man there heard it, and back they rushed into the cave.
• The next morning he was worse, and as it was necessary to move the herd out to open country, Edwards took an old negro with him and went back to a ranch on the Texas side.
• He let his head fall back against the frame of the window, and his eyes closed once more.
• He had carried back the statue of Annui and stood before it regarding it with perplexity.
• Then very slowly Johnny Everard came back to his chair.
• He brought me back to introduce me, and we found you here.

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