And Hes Back at It Again
back 1 adv If yous move back , you move in the opposite direction to the one in which y'all are facing or in which you were moving before. ii adv If you get dorsum somewhere, you return to where you were before. 3 adv If someone or something is back in a particular state, they were in that country before and are at present in information technology again. 4 adv If you lot give or put something back , you return it to the person who had information technology or to the identify where it was before you took it. If you get or take something back , you then have information technology once more after not having information technology for a while. 5 adv If you put a clock or watch back , you modify the time shown on it so that information technology shows an earlier time, for instance when the time changes to winter time or standard fourth dimension. six adv If you write or call back , you lot write to or telephone someone subsequently they have written to or telephoned you. If you wait back at someone, you wait at them after they have started looking at you. 7 adv You tin say that you get or come up back to a particular signal in a chat to bear witness that you are mentioning or discussing information technology again. 8 adv If something is or comes dorsum , information technology is fashionable again after it has been unfashionable for some time. 9 adv If someone or something is kept or situated dorsum from a place, they are at a altitude away from information technology. ten adv If something is held or tied back , it is held or tied so that it does not hang loosely over something. 11 adv If you lie or sit back , you move your trunk backwards into a relaxed sloping or flat position, with your caput and trunk resting on something. 12 adv If you lot look or shout back at someone or something, you turn to look or shout at them when they are behind you. thirteen adv You use back in expressions similar back in London or back at the house when you are giving an account, to bear witness that yous are going to start talking about what happened or was happening in the place you lot mention. 14 adv If you lot talk about something that happened dorsum in the past or several years dorsum , yous are emphasizing that it happened quite a long time ago. 15 adv If you think back to something that happened in the past, you remember information technology or attempt to remember it. 16 If someone moves back and along, they repeatedly move in 1 direction and then in the contrary direction. 17 [
1] (ADVERB USES)
In add-on to the uses shown below, dorsum is too used in phrasal verbs such every bit `appointment back' and `fall back on'.
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ADV after v, oft ADV prep
The photographers drew dorsum to let usa view the torso..., She stepped back from the door expectantly..., He pushed her away and she fell back on the wooden bench...
ADV after five, exist ADV, oft ADV prep/adv
I went dorsum to bed..., I'm due back in London by late afternoon..., Smith changed his mind and moved back domicile..., I'll be back equally soon every bit I can..., He made a circular-trip to the concluding and back.
ADV after v, exist ADV, often ADV prep
The rail visitor said information technology expected services to get slowly back to normal..., Denise hopes to exist back at work past the time her daughter is one...
ADV later v, oft ADV prep
She handed the knife back..., Put it back in the freezer..., You'll get your coin back.
ADV after v
ADV after v, oftentimes ADV prep
They wrote dorsum to me and they told me that I didn't accept to do information technology..., If the phone rings say you'll call up later dinner..., Lee looked at Theodora. She stared back.
ADV afterward 5, ADV to n
Can I come dorsum to the question of policing in one case once more?..., Going dorsum to the school, how many staff are there?
ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV prep
Short skirts are back..., Consensus politics could easily come back into way.
ADV subsequently v, be ADV, oft ADV from northward
Keep back from the edge of the platform..., I'chiliad a few miles dorsum from the edge..., He started for Dot's bedroom and Myrtle held him back.
ADV afterwards 5
The defunction were held back by tassels.
ADV afterward v (Antonym: forrad) She lay back and stared at the ceiling..., She leaned back in her chair and smiled.
ADV afterward 5, frequently ADV prep
Nick looked back over his shoulder and so stopped, frowning..., He chosen back to her.
ADV with five, ADV prep
Meanwhile, back in London, Palace Pictures was collapsing..., Later, back at domicile, the telephone rang.
ADV with v, ADV prep, n ADV (accent) The story starts dorsum in 1950, when I was five..., He contributed £50m to the projection a few years back.
ADV subsequently 5, ADV to northward
I thought back to the time in 1975 when my son was desperately ill...
♦ dorsum and along phrase PHR after v
He paced back and forth...
→ to cast your mind back
→ heed
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