back

related to or located at the back

“the back yard”

“the back entrance”

located at or near the back of an animal

“back (or hind) legs”

“the hinder part of a carcass”

of an earlier date

“back issues of the magazine”

the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine

“his back was nicely tanned”

the side that goes last or is not normally seen

“he wrote the date on the back of the photograph”

the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

“he stood at the back of the stage”

“it was hidden in the rear of the store”

(football) a person who plays in the backfield

the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

“the fall broke his back”

the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

“the book had a leather binding”

in or to or toward a former location

“she went back to her parents' house”

at or to or toward the back or rear

“he moved back”

“tripped when he stepped backward”

“she looked rearward out the window of the car”

in or to or toward an original condition

“he went back to sleep”

in or to or toward a past time

“set the clocks back an hour”

“never look back”

“lovers of the past looking fondly backward”

in reply

“he wrote back three days later”

in repayment or retaliation

“we paid back everything we had borrowed”

“he hit me and I hit him back”

“I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher”

be behind; approve of

“He plumped for the Labor Party”

“I backed Kennedy in 1960”

travel backward

“back into the driveway”

“The car backed up and hit the tree”

give support or one's approval to

“I'll second that motion”

“I can't back this plan”

“endorse a new project”

cause to travel backward

“back the car into the parking spot”

support financial backing for

“back this enterprise”

“Sam and Sue back the movie”

be in back of

“My garage backs their yard”