What's the difference between backside and bankside?
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.
Bankside
Definition:
(n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
Example Sentences:
(1) The beavers have felled most of the bankside birch, sycamore and other trees they like to eat and use for their dams.
(2) Details Book now Date: Friday 22 September 2017 Times: Evening class, 6.30pm-8.30pm Location: Tate Modern , Bankside, London SE1 9TG Price: £89 plus £4.06 booking fee Event capacity: 18 You may also be interested in... A morning at the Victoria and Albert Museum with Jonathan Jones A morning at the Wallace Collection with Jonathan Jones Sign up to our newsletter and you’ll be among the first to find out about our latest courses and special offers.
(3) When she moved to the Tate in 1997 it was to put together a pre-opening programme of community liaison in Bankside for what was to become Tate Modern, as well as planning the installation of the collection and providing a blueprint for an exhibition programme.
(4) Further upstream, Eco Trails offers a different view of the river, starting in the town of Odemira and following the river as it narrows, spotting numerous species of bird in the bankside reeds (three-five hours from €15pp, 5-15-year-olds half-price).
(5) We're trying to make a museum-quality exhibition in a public space,” says the project's curator, Cedar Lewisohn, who also organised Tate Modern's 2008 Street Art show , which saw the brick facade of Bankside power station covered with murals.
(6) It was 1999, and I was taking a hard-hat tour of the nearly completed conversion of Bankside power station into Tate Modern .