What's the difference between backstitch and backwards?

Backstitch


Definition:

  • (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
  • (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By conversion of the beam geometry (1.3 micron Nd:YAG laser, 200 micron light conductor) and use of three concentrically applied 10.0 backstitch sutures in 25 end-to-end anastomoses of the common carotid artery of adult albino rats 0.8-1.2 mm in diameter, early and late complications could be markedly reduced (12%).
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Backstitching is an effective way to mend a ripped seam but running and zigzag stitching may also be required.
  • (3) Backstitch to secure the seam and then sew along the unravelled section of the seam until you meet the stitching on the other side of the tear.
  • (4) Sewing by hand If you are sewing by hand, then the best hand stitch is the backstitch.

Backwards


Definition:

  • (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
  • (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
  • (adv.) On the back, or with the back downward.
  • (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
  • (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
  • (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
  • (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (2) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (3) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
  • (4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (5) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
  • (6) For all my enthusiasm, my family must have felt we were taking a step backwards in lifestyle.
  • (7) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
  • (8) They’ve actually gone backwards,” Cobbett said.
  • (9) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
  • (10) Those with unstable Dunlop test responses were much more likely to be backward or low normal readers than children with stable responses.
  • (11) The effects of interval duration as well as of repeated presentation of paired stimuli on backward connections show that these factors are of considerable importance for their formation.
  • (12) They need not tilt the head backwards during inhalation or hold their breath afterwards.
  • (13) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
  • (14) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (15) But we won't be taking a backwards step, not this week, not this year, or next year or ever."
  • (16) Twenty-four male graduate volunteers were administered a battery of psychological tests--critical flicker fusion (CFF; alternate and simultaneous), reaction time (simple and choice), memory (forward and backward), and associative recall--to ascertain their performance capability during the different times of day.
  • (17) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (18) The target patterns varied in the number of line segments that they contained and were presented in the presence or absence of a backward-masking stimulus.
  • (19) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.

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