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What (who) is backwards - definition
Backwards
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Backward; Red Dwarf: Backwards; Backwards (disambiguation); Sdrawkcab
·adv By way of reflection; reflexively.
II. Backwards ·adv On the back, or with the back downward.
III. Backwards ·adv Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
IV. Backwards ·adv With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
V. Backwards ·adv Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
VI. Backwards ·adv From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
VII. Backwards ·adv In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
backwards
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Backward; Red Dwarf: Backwards; Backwards (disambiguation); Sdrawkcab
Note: in AM, use 'backward'
1.
If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
The diver flipped over backwards into the water...
He took two steps backward...
Bess glanced backwards...
Keeping your back straight, swing one leg backwards.
ADV: ADV after v
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Backwards is also an adjective.
Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
If you do something backwards, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way.
He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards.
ADV: ADV after v
3.
You use backwards to indicate that something changes or develops in a way that is not an improvement, but is a return to old ideas or methods.
Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards.
...the blaming that keeps us looking backward.
ADV: ADV after v, n ADV
4.
see also backward
5.
If someone or something moves backwards and forwards, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
Draw the floss backwards and forwards between the teeth.
...people travelling backwards and forwards to and from London.
PHRASE: PHR after v
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backwards
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Backward; Red Dwarf: Backwards; Backwards (disambiguation); Sdrawkcab
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See backward
Wikipedia
Backwards
Backward or Backwards is a relative direction.
Examples of use of backwards
1. "But instead they were furious." Step backwards Kleanthos says: "This was a real step backwards.
2. Rocking backwards and forwards offers some relief.
3. MOVING BACKWARDS The U.N. report said 50 countries, with a combined population of '00 million, were actually moving backwards on at least one of the development goals.
4. Well, I guess the backwards leadership wasn‘t enough for the Iranians, so they went and elected an even more backwards president.
5. "They don‘t have time to evolve backwards," Stirling said.