Concept cluster: Activities > Moving or directed backwards
adv
(archaic) Backward.
adv
(obsolete) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
adj
(colloquial) Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.
adv
(obsolete) Backward.
adv
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
adj
Reversed, with the back now at the front.
n
flux in the reverse direction
adj
Backwards, turned around.
adj
Deliberately recorded backwards in a track that is meant to be played forwards.
adj
(of an image) Formed by back projection
adv
In a reversed orientation; back to front.
n
(statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
n
Any algorithm belonging to the general class that operate on sequence models in a forward-backward manner.
n
A turning away from a straight course.
adj
leaning backwards
adj
(rare) Directed or moved backward
n
Synonym of back projection
n
Synonym of rear-view mirror
n
Synonym of rearview mirror
adj
Rearward.
n
A bending or flexure backward.
adj
turned backwards
adj
Turned out of its straight course.
adj
Undergoing regression
adj
That tends to return, revert or regress.
adj
Bent or curved backward or upward.
adj
(phonetics, of a sound) Pronounced further back in the vocal tract.
adj
(anatomy) backward
n
A muscle that draws the ear backward.
adj
Serving to draw something backward.
adv
In a retral position or direction; posteriorly.
n
Running backwards as a form of exercise or physical therapy.
n
A backwards inclination (especially of teeth)
n
Copulation from behind.
n
backward curvature
adj
curved backward
v
To displace backwards
adj
Describing rockets that are directed opposite to the direction of motion and used to slow down.
n
The condition of being bent backwards.
adj
Bent in a posterior (backwards) direction, as the uterus
adj
retroflex; backwards
adj
(botany) Bent sharply back, so as to appear broken.
adj
On the side and facing backwards
n
The characteristic of urinating backwards, present in certain animals.
n
(obsolete) An animal that urinates backwards, such as the camel, hippo or raccoon.
v
To displace backwards
adj
retrorse
adj
(biology) Curved, pointed or oriented backward or downward.
adj
Turned or tilted back.
adj
Thrust backward; retruding.
n
A form of boustrophedon in which the page is rotated by 180 degrees after writing each line, so that alternate lines are upside down relative to one another.
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Bent back, reversed.
v
(nonstandard) rewound
adv
In reversed orientation.
n
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
adv
Backwards in time, into the past.
adv
(figuratively) Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.

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