{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "bæk" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/back.jpg", "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/back.jpg", "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/back.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/back.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/back.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰogo (literally “bending”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.\nCompare 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 ”).", "Borrowed from French bac." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "At or near the rear.\n\nGo in the back door of the house." }, { "mean": "(predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.\nHe was on vacation, but now he’s back.\nThe office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back." }, { "mean": "Not current.\nI’d like to find a back issue of that magazine." }, { "mean": "Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.\nThey took a back road.\nHe lives out in the back country." }, { "mean": "In arrears; overdue.\nThey still owe three months' back rent." }, { "mean": "Moving or operating backward.\nback action" }, { "mean": "(comparable, phonetics) 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).\nThe vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.\n\nHe gave back the money.\nI left my mobile phone back at the hotel. I'll have to go back and get it." }, { "mean": "In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.\nSomeone pushed me in the chest and I fell back.\nThe grandfather clock toppled back and crashed to the ground.\nHer arm was bent back at an odd angle." }, { "mean": "In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.\nWind the film back a few frames.\nDon't forget to put the clocks back by one hour tonight!\nThis mishap has set the project back considerably." }, { "mean": "So as to reverse direction and return.\nThe light bounces back off the mirror." }, { "mean": "Towards, into or in the past.\nThese records go back years.\nHe built a time machine and travelled back to 1800.\nThink back to how you felt last year.\nEverything was simpler back in the old days." }, { "mean": "Away from someone or something; at a distance.\nKeep back! It could explode at any moment!" }, { "mean": "Away from the front or from an edge.\nSit all the way back in your chair.\nStep back from the curb." }, { "mean": "So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.\nThis tree is dying back.\nClear back all this vegetation.\nDraw back the curtains and let in some light." }, { "mean": "In a manner that impedes.\nFear held him back." }, { "mean": "(not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.\nIf you hurt me, I'll hurt you back." }, { "mean": "(postpositive) Earlier, ago.\nWe met many years back.\nI last saw him a day or two back." }, { "mean": "To a later point in time. See also put back.\nThe meeting has been moved back an hour. It was at 3 o'clock; now it's at 4 o'clock." } ] }, { "name": "Postposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Before now; ago.\nWoods, John (1822) Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, United States (in English), page 138: “Our road was chiefly through woods, and part of it lay through the Hurricane-track, that is where a strong wind, some years back, opened a passage through the woods for a mile in breadth...”" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.\nCould you please scratch my back?", "submean": [ "The spine and associated tissues.\nI hurt my back lifting those crates.", "(slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.\n", "(figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.\nI still need to finish the back of your dress.", "The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.\nCan you fix the back of this chair?", "(obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)\n" ] }, { "mean": "That which is farthest away from the front.\nHe sat in the back of the room.", "submean": [ "The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.\nTurn the book over and look at the back.\nThe edge of a book which is bound.\nThe titles are printed on the backs of the books.\n(printing) The inside margin of a page.\n\nThe side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.\nTap it with the back of your knife.", "", "", "", "The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.\nI hung the clothes on the back of the door.", "Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.\nWe'll meet out in the back of the library.", "The part of something that goes last.\nThe car was near the back of the train.", "(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.\nThe backs were lined up in an I formation.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.\nThe small boat raced over the backs of the waves." }, { "mean": "A support or resource in reserve." }, { "mean": "(nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.\nThe ship's back broke in the pounding surf." }, { "mean": "(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage." }, { "mean": "(slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.\nPut some back into it!" }, { "mean": "A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.\nCould I get a martini with a water back?" }, { "mean": "Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides." }, { "mean": "(swimming) Clipping of backstroke." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.\nthe train backed into the station;  the horse refuses to back" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To support.\nI back you all the way;  which horse are you backing in this race?" }, { "mean": "(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere." }, { "mean": "(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship." }, { "mean": "(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power." }, { "mean": "(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To push or force backwards.\nto back oxen\nThe mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back." }, { "mean": "To make a back for; to furnish with a back.\nto back books" }, { "mean": "To adjoin behind; to be at the back of." }, { "mean": "To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.\nto back a letter;  to back a note or legal document" }, { "mean": "(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender)." }, { "mean": "To row backward with (oars).\nto back the oars" }, { "mean": "(MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (as also back out)." }, { "mean": "(Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "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." }, { "mean": "A ferryboat." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "조사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(near the rear): rear", "(not current): former, previous" ], "kor": [ "", "" ] } } }