Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic, intransitive To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- v. idiomatic, transitive To move a vehicle backwards.
- v. idiomatic, intransitive To undo one's actions.
- v. idiomatic, intransitive To reconsider one's thoughts.
- v. idiomatic, computing, transitive To copy (data) as a security measure.
- v. idiomatic, transitive To provide support or the promise of support.
- v. idiomatic, intransitive, cricket For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- v. idiomatic, intransitive, cricket For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- v. idiomatic, intransitive to halt the flow or movement of something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to move in a reverse direction; -- used of vehicles or animals.
- v. to accumulate due to a blockage of flow.
- v. to serve as a backup{3} for (another person or persons).
- v. (Computers) to make a backup{5} of.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- v. move backwards from a certain position
- v. make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- v. establish as valid or genuine
- v. become or cause to become obstructed
Examples
“But the confrontation had evidently put Miranda off her evening run; she turned and headed back up to the river road.”
“In the midst of simulating an abort, the astronauts, while some 47,000 feet above the lunar surface and on their way back up to the command module, switched their navigational control from PNGS to AGS.”
“He quickly pulled his hands apart and looked back up to see one of the landing control crewmen, a short, wiry man named Al Dietz, walking toward him.”
“I pulled her cart over so she wouldnt have to walk all the way back for it, and after shed hunted for a while, in vain, and climbed back up onto the fairway, she saw her cart sitting there and delivered what I thought was a classic line: Out I vass, she said to me.”
“Bounding back up the stairs, Griffin held out the penny to her mother.”
“I failed to see the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon but I did hike almost two miles down a steep canyon trail, three more miles through a sandy wash to see the other galleries, and then hiked two miles back up the canyon wall.”
“A brisk walk down to the “Y” in our dirt road and back up the other side took only 20 minutes and was up- and downhill.”
“Heading back up the conveyor to the canopy-side transport station?”
“Climbing back up the steps and continuing west, we find some tumbledown shacks at the top of the path leading to the slipway.”
The Guardian: Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
“Lying on my back and using my hands and one good leg for support, I crab-crawl down the hill to where the fence drops off and ends in piles of rolled-up mesh wire clustered around a large hump in the ground, then claw my way back up the hill on the opposite side of the fence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘back up’.
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phrasal verbs: UP
throw up, jazz up, cover up, add up, conjure up, beef up, chat up, butter up, pucker up, cough up, clam up, close up and 74 more...
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Whatever Works (2009)
Words from 2009 'Whatever Works' film.
fault, racket, unto, flaw, fallacious, notion, decent, embalm, filch, delusion, delusions of gran..., grandeur and 135 more...
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ms.thoennes's list
A brief list of technology-related words.
podcast, blog, wiki, web site, rss feed, vlog, social networking..., social bookmarking, external hard drive, back up, mp3, browser and 4 more...
Tweets
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