What's the difference between back and backside?

Back


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
  • (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
  • (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
  • (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  • (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
  • (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
  • (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
  • (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
  • (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
  • (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
  • (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
  • (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
  • (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  • (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
  • (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
  • (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
  • (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
  • (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
  • (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
  • (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
  • (adv.) 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.
  • (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
  • (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
  • (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
  • (adv.) 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.
  • (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
  • (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
  • (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
  • (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (3) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (4) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
  • (5) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (6) On the way back to Pristina later, the lawyer told me everything was fine.
  • (7) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (8) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (9) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (10) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (11) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (12) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (13) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (14) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (15) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (16) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (17) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (18) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (19) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (20) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.

Backside


Definition:

  • (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
  • (2) Leaked Home Office documents show bisexual asylum seekers being asked degrading questions during hours of interrogation by Home Office officials – questions that included: "What is it about men's backsides that attracts you?"
  • (3) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
  • (4) Why they can't get their head out of their backside?"
  • (5) "It'll be close, but I've been working my backside off and I'm absolutely determined to deliver change for Bolton ...
  • (6) Stones was left on his backside by the pirouetting Odion Ighalo as the Nigerian restored Watford’s lead.
  • (7) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
  • (8) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
  • (9) Since black womanhood is apparently all in the look, our society would rather have white, former Disney pop stars twerk , talentless celebrities with enlarged backsides and their equally talentless siblings with swollen lips than celebrate the black woman’s form with the person who carries it.
  • (10) While there are ways to kick the ultra-conservative Barratts, Bovises and Taylor Wimpeys up the backside, they are never going to answer simple calls to end the housing shortage.
  • (11) There, he witnessed a native servant, who had dropped a trunk that was being taken on board the ship, being viciously kicked on the backside by a white police sergeant, to the obvious approval of the onlookers.
  • (12) There is undeniably a touch of class snobbery in reactions to Cole's tattoo – a sense of disapproval of a certain aesthetic style or her decision to cover her whole backside.
  • (13) In this paper, experimental results of a pilot's ability to control the STOL aircraft are presented for a multi-variable manual control system using a fixed ground base simulator and the pilot's control ability is discussed for the flight of an STOL aircraft at backside of drag curve at approach and landing.
  • (14) The binding site for the reaction center is on the frontside of cytochrome c which is the side with the exposed heme edge, as revealed by differential chemical acetylation of lysines of free and reaction-center-bound cytochrome c. In contrast, bacterial cytochrome c2 was found previously to bind to the detergent-solubilized reaction center through its backside, i.e., the side opposite to the heme cleft [Rieder, R., Wiemken, V., Bachofen, R., and Bosshard, H. R. (1985).
  • (15) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
  • (16) The prime minister had failed to remove Bishop as Speaker because he is “protecting his backside”.
  • (17) Fifteen minutes later the same English justice system – in the formidable shape of Mrs Justice Gloster – gave Berezovsky an almighty and devastating kick up the backside.
  • (18) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
  • (19) Her protest will continue, she says, until her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, a blogger, revolutionary and "thorn in the backside of the military", is released from prison, where he has been since 30 October.
  • (20) They whistle up a press conference and go into full-control mode in the interest of saving their own backsides and the credibility of the sport that has made them insanely rich.