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BACKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type
Classified under:
Similar:
hardback; hardbacked; hardbound; hardcover (having a hard back or cover)
high-backed (having a high back)
low-backed (having a low back)
razor-backed; razorback (having a sharp narrow back)
spiny-backed (having the back covered with spines)
stiff-backed (having a stiff back)
straight-backed (having a straight back)
Antonym:
backless (lacking a back)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light
Classified under:
Similar:
coated (having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb back
Context examples:
So saying, the stranger backed along with me into the parlour and put me behind him in the corner so that we were both hidden by the open door.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Later on, when the overtures became more insistent, White Fang bristled and bared his teeth and backed away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I have three now, the best that ever were backed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laurie backed precipitately into a corner, and put his hands behind him with an imploring gesture.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It appeared to me that the gentleman in spectacles backed his Twenty Eight against Mr. Creakle's Twenty Seven, for each of them took his own man in hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The lawn, bounded on each side by a high wall, contained beyond the first planted area a bowling-green, and beyond the bowling-green a long terrace walk, backed by iron palisades, and commanding a view over them into the tops of the trees of the wilderness immediately adjoining.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
