(n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.
(n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.
(n.) Support or aid given to a person or cause.
(n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.
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.
Bocking
Definition:
(n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(2) Of the nine inversions, two have been described earlier by Bock from laboratory populations established from Borneo, Thailand and the Philippines.
(3) In Hunstanton Natasha Bocking, from Bircham Newton, 10 miles away, was doing the weekly shopping with her friend Samantha Burpitt, from Sculthorpe.
(4) He's given software chief Bocking an Angry Birds stuffed toy.
(5) Bock said: “It is now up to the remaining parties, in particular the Australian government, to also recognise this reality and cancel this destructive project.
(6) We conclude that a portion of the mechanism proposed previously (Bock, P.E., and Frieden, C. (1976) J. Biol.
(7) In around 1300, the peasants of Bocking in Essex (later a centre of the 1381 peasants’ revolt) appealed to Magna Carta in a struggle against their lord’s bailiff.
(8) Purification of the enzyme to homogeneity from bovine heart mitochondria was described more than a decade ago [H. G. Bock and S. Fleischer (1975) J. Biol.
(9) A dysfunctional antithrombin III (ATIII) gene encoding a qualitatively and quantitatively abnormal anticoagulant molecule is responsible for hereditary thrombosis in a Utah kindred [Bock et al.
(10) We have previously shown that an alkaline phosphatase signal peptide mutant containing a polyleucine core region functions efficiently in transport of the enzyme [D. A. Kendall, S. C. Bock, and E. T. Kaiser (1986) Nature 321, 706-708].
(11) "It is great to see so many people downloading BBM, but the true measurement for us is engagement – the connections being made and the conversations in which our BBM community engages," said BlackBerry's executive vice president of BBM, Andrew Bocking.
(12) The early version "resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways", Bocking wrote.
(13) Laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses can be performed with the most diverse types of laser (Dujovny et al: 4th Annu Gen Sci Meet LANSI, 1986; Godlewski et al: World J Surg 10:329-333, 1986; Gomes et al: Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo 37:255, 1982; Quigley et al: Laser Surg Med 5:357-367, 1985; Quigley et al: Lancet 1:334, 1985; Quigley et al: Neurosurgery 18(3):292-299, 1986; Jain: J Microsurg 1:436-439, 1980; Jain: Lancet 2:816-817, 1984; Krueger and Almquist: Lasers Surg Med 5:55, 1985; Neblett et al: Neurosurgery 19(6):914-934, 1986; Schober et al: Science 232:1421-1422, 1986; Ulrich et al: 2nd Annu Gen Sci Meet LANSI, 1984; Ulrich and Bock: Optoelectronics in Medicine, Spring-Verlag 418-423, 1986).
(14) Chief executive Kurt Bock said: "Our customers are continuing to act cautiously and are reducing their inventories."
(15) The postponement will hold up the official release for at least a week, Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, said in a blogpost .
(16) On comparing these findings with an earlier proposed model (Bock & Bromm, 1977) we could show a good correspondence for the P.P.
(17) Bock and Wheeler (1972) reviewed the Drosophila melanogaster species group in which more than 70 species were classified into a number of subgroups.
(18) Non-axial feet developed recently, such as the SAFE II and Seattle Light feet achieved higher scores in the older age group, while single-axis feet, such as the LAPOC and Otto Bock feet achieved higher scores in the younger age group (p < 0.05).
(19) These findings support a new concept of cold-lability proposed by Bock, Gilbert & Frieden [Biochem.
(20) In a randomly selected population screening study of 8450 men and 9039 women 33 to 71 years of age conducted in Iceland in 1967-1977, 27 men and 17 women were found to have left bundle branch bock (LBBB).