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名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /bæk/|[bæk]|[bak]|[-k̚]|[-ˀk]    美 /bæk/|[bæk]|[bak]|[-k̚]|[-ˀk]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. countable,uncountable
    — Could you please scratch my back?
  3. A ferryboat.
  4. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.; The spine and associated tissues. countable,uncountable
    — I hurt my back lifting those crates.
  5. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.; Large and attractive buttocks. slang,uncountable
    — Take the average black man and ask him that. She gotta pack much back.
  6. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.; The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — I still need to finish the back of your dress.
  7. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.; The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back. countable,uncountable
    — Can you fix the back of this chair?
  8. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.; That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.) countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Do thou but think / What ’tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice
  9. That which is farthest away from the front. countable,uncountable
    — He sat in the back of the room.
  10. That which is farthest away from the front.; The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side. countable,uncountable
    — Turn the book over and look at the back.
  11. That which is farthest away from the front.; The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.; The edge of a book which is bound. countable,uncountable
    — The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
  12. That which is farthest away from the front.; The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.; The inside margin of a page. countable,uncountable
    — Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the back.
  13. That which is farthest away from the front.; The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.; The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting. countable,uncountable
    — Tap it with the back of your knife.
  14. That which is farthest away from the front.; The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen. countable,uncountable
    — I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
  15. That which is farthest away from the front.; Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store. countable,uncountable
    — We’ll meet out in the back of the library.
  16. That which is farthest away from the front.; The part of something that goes last. countable,uncountable
    — The car was near the back of the train.
  17. That which is farthest away from the front.; In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team. countable,uncountable
    — The backs were lined up in an I formation.
  18. The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
  19. A support or resource in reserve. countable,uncountable
    — This project / Should have a back or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof.
  20. The keel and keelson of a ship. countable,uncountable
    — The ship’s back broke in the pounding surf.
  21. The roof of a horizontal underground passage. countable,uncountable
    — The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.
  22. Effort, usually physical. slang,uncountable
    — Put some back into it!
  23. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail. countable,uncountable
    — Could I get a martini with a water back?
  24. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides. countable,uncountable
    — […]as delivered by a tanner the average weight of a back and two strips would be about 42 pounds[…].
  25. Clipping of backstroke. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To go in the reverse direction. intransitive
    — The train backed into the station.
  2. To support. transitive
    — I back you all the way.
  3. To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
  4. To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
  5. To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
  6. To stand still behind another dog which has pointed. UK
  7. To push or force backwards. transitive
    — to back oxen
  8. To get upon the back of; to mount. obsolete,transitive
    — I will back him [a horse] straight.
  9. To place or seat upon the back. obsolete,transitive
    — Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, / Appeared to me.
  10. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
    — to back books
  11. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
    — He hath a garden circummured with brick, Whose western side is with a vineyard backed
  12. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
    — to back a letter;  to back a note or legal document
  13. To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
  14. To row backward with (oars).
    — to back the oars
  15. To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out). Multicultural-London-English,transitive
    — Sticks and Stones may break my bones Not when I back this botty
  16. To carry an infant on one’s back. Nigeria,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. At or near the rear. not-comparable,usually
    — Go in the back door of the house.
  2. Returned or restored to a previous place or condition. not-comparable,predicative,usually
    — He was on vacation, but now he’s back.
  3. Not current. not-comparable,usually
    — I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
  4. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas. not-comparable,usually
    — They took a back road.
  5. In arrears; overdue. not-comparable,usually
    — They still owe three months’ back rent.
  6. Moving or operating backward. not-comparable,usually
    — back action
  7. Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel). comparable,not-comparable,usually
    — The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
副词 adv.
  1. To or in a previous condition or place. not-comparable
    — He gave back the money.
  2. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
    — Someone pushed me in the chest and I fell back.
  3. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
    — Wind the film back a few frames.
  4. Towards, into or in the past.
    — These records go back years.
  5. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
    — Keep back! It could explode at any moment!
  6. Away from the front or from an edge.
    — Sit all the way back in your chair.
  7. So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
    — This tree is dying back.
  8. In a manner that impedes.
    — Fear held him back.
  9. In a reciprocal manner; in return. not-comparable
    — If you hurt me, I’ll hurt you back.
  10. Earlier, ago. postpositional
    — We met many years back.
  11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
    — The meeting has been moved back an hour. It was at 3 o’clock; now it's at 4 o’clock.

词形变化

more back comparative most back superlative further back comparative farther back comparative furthest back superlative farthest back superlative backs plural backs present,singular,third-person backing participle,present backed participle,past backed past backs plural

词汇关系

近义词
reverse dorsum
反义词
front current main veer
下位词
buttocks
衍生词
back alley back door back room backway spring forward, fall back aback A-back abackward arrowback assback baby back rib backache backake backaching back actor back against the wall back and edge back biter back day back extension backhoe back-of-an-envelope back-of-the-envelope back-pad back squat backward big back blow someone's back out boostback break one's arm patting oneself on the back break one's back break someone's back caseback Chinaman on one's back could be written on the back of a postage stamp could fit on the back of a postage stamp cover one's back cover someone's back defensive back does Dolly Parton sleep on her back drawing back fall off the back of a lorry fall off the back of a truck flat on one's back get someone's back get the band back together have eyes in the back of one's head have got someone's back have one's back up have someone's back h-back hingeback hinged-back tortoise horseback houseback humpback hunchback inch back key back like water off a duck's back make a stick for one's own back Mediterranean back monkey on one's back mossback mossyback muleback nickel back no skin off one's back off one's own back one's back is up on one's back on someone's back open-back pain in the back pat on the back rod for one's own back scratch someone's back the back of shanty back slap on the back stab in the back stab-in-the-back myth sticky-back plastic stringbacks take someone out back the shirt off one's back the straw that broke the camel's back turn one's back turtle-back upon the back of watch one's back water off a duck's back wing back wing-back wingback with one arm tied behind one's back with one hand tied behind one's back wooley back woolly back you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
相关词
back vowel bacon

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.?
Proto-Germanic *baką
Proto-West Germanic *bak
Old English bæc
Middle English bak
English back
From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
French bacbor.
English back
Borrowed from French bac.
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