Englisch > Deutsch | |
back | |
1. Adjektiv: | |
2. [1] rückseitig | |
3. [2] hinter | |
4. [3] abgelegen | |
5. [4] alt | |
6. Adverb: | |
7. [1] zurück | |
8. [2] vorher | |
[1] Go back to the beginning. | |
9. Substantiv: | |
10. [1] Rücken | |
11. [2] Rückseite | |
12. [3] Hintergrund | |
13. [4] Mannschaftsspiel: Verteidiger | |
[1] My back hurts really bad. | |
Mein Rücken schmerzt wirklich übel. | |
14. Verb: | |
15. [1] unterstützen | |
16. [2] unterlegen, hinterlegen | |
17. [3] zurück bewegen | |
18. [4] gegen den Uhrzeigersinn drehen | |
[1] to back a proposal | |
[2] to back a foreground | |
[3] to back a car | |
[4] The wind backs. | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
back | |
1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear. | |
Go in the back door of the house. | |
2. adj. (not comparable) Not current. | |
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine. | |
3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area. | |
They took a back road. | |
4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue. | |
They still owe three months' back rent. | |
5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward. | |
back action | |
6. adj. (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). | |
The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England. | |
7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place. | |
He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back. | |
8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge. | |
Sit all the way back in your chair. | |
Step back from the curb. | |
9. adv. In a manner that impedes. | |
Fear held him back. | |
10. adv. In a reciprocal manner. | |
If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back. | |
11. adv. Earlier, ago. | |
many years back | |
12. subst. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | |
Could you please scratch my back? | |
13. subst. The spine and associated tissues. | |
I hurt my back lifting those crates. | |
14. subst. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks. | |
15. subst. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back. | |
I still need to finish the back of your dress. | |
16. subst. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back. | |
Can you fix the back of this chair? | |
17. subst. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.) | |
18. subst. That which is farthest away from the front. | |
He sat in the back of the room. | |
19. subst. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side. | |
Turn the book over and look at the back. | |
20. subst. # The edge of a book which is bound. | |
# The titles are printed on the backs of the books. | |
21. subst. # (printing) The inside margin of a page. | |
22. subst. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting. | |
# Tap it with the back of your knife. | |
23. subst. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen. | |
I hung the clothes on the back of the door. | |
24. subst. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house. | |
We'll meet out in the back of the library. | |
25. subst. The part of something that goes last. | |
The car was near the back of the train. | |
26. subst. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team. | |
The backs were lined up in an I formation. | |
27. subst. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. | |
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves. | |
28. subst. A support or resource in reserve. | |
29. subst. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship. | |
The ship's back broke in the pounding surf. | |
30. subst. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage. | |
31. subst. (slang) Effort, usually physical. | |
Put some back into it! | |
32. subst. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail. | |
Could I get a martini with a water back? | |
33. subst. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction. | |
the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back | |
35. v. To support. | |
I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race? | |
36. v. (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. | |
37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship. | |
38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power. | |
39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed. | |
40. v. To push or force backwards. | |
to back oxen | |
The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet. | |
41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount. | |
42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back. | |
43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back. | |
to back books | |
44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. | |
45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement. | |
to back a letter; to back a note or legal document | |
46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender). | |
47. v. To row backward with (oars). | |
to back the oars | |
48. subst. 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. | |
49. subst. A ferryboat. | |
Deutsch > Englisch | |
Rücken | |
1. n-m. (anatomy) back | |
Mir tut der Rücken weh. - My back hurts. | |
auf dem Rücken liegend - lying on one's back | |
2. n-m. informal ellipsis of Rückenschmerzen, ; back pain, especially chronic back pain | |
Wer so viel malocht wie sie, kriegt irgendwann halt Rücken. - If you work as extraneously as she does, you’re gonna get back pain eventually. | |
Rücken haben - to have back pain | |
3. n-m. ellipsis of Buchrücken, t=spine of a book | |
Der Titel eines Buches wird gewöhnlich auf den Rücken gedruckt. - The title of a book is usually printed on the spine. | |