TO BACK UP

  

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TO BACK UP

Definition: TO BACK UP

TO BACK UP

1. To support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO BACK UP

English words defined with "TO BACK UP": Bedchair, bend, bowcrouchfibular veinhometown, homing pigeonperoneal veinshaking, short saphenous vein, Spring back, stoopTo breakUntilvena peroneus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO BACK UP": alligator, ARC, Articles interchangedBack and Edge, back sewer, BACK TENDER, CLOTH PRINTING, bending-roll operator, blit, BOAT-HOIST OPERATOR, BONDING-MACHINE SETTER, BOOK-SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR II, boring-machine operator, BUTTON MAKER AND INSTALLERcallback, CARBON-PAPER-COATING-MACHINE SETTER, carrier storage, CASING-IN-LINE SETTER, charge storage, CHUCKING-AND-SAWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, cigarette and assembly-machine inspector, CIGARETTE-MAKING-MACHINE CATCHER, CLOTH PRINTER, contact-frame operator, CONTOUR GRINDER, cutter operator, CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATORdata channel, demand paging, drunk mouse syndromeengraving photographer, Export Credit Guarantee Programsfinishing machine operator, FOXING PAINTER, fuel up, fugitive airGet One's Back UpHAMED, HEAD-BANDER-AND-LINER OPERATOR, hello world, hello, world, HORIZONTAL-EARTH-BORING-MACHINE OPERATOR, HorseInternet Adapter, iron boxline starve, LITHOGRAPH-PRESS OPERATOR, TINWARE, LOOM SETTER, WIRE WEAVINGmachine adjuster, making-machine catcher, MOLD FILLER AND DRAINERnon-amortised shareO'Rourke car switcherPacket InterNet Groper, PANTOGRAPHER, PANTOGRAPH-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, Partington, Pelops, PHOTOGRAPHER, PHOTOENGRAVING, physiological acceleration, PLANER-TYPE-MILLING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, PLATE GAUGER, print server, printing-machine operator, profile grinderradiosonde, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Reconcilation, Ringing the Changes, roast stall, roll former, ROLL OPERATOR I, ROOSEVELT, rug scratchersafety platform, sawtooth stoping, Snakes, stored charge, story, studio technician-video operator, supercapacity elevator bucketthundering herd problem, tracing float, TRIMMER OPERATOR, tunneling-machine operatorunredeemed share, unwind the stack, Urijahvideotape engineer, VIDEOTAPE OPERATORwagon rerailer, WEAVER, AXMINSTER, wedge cut, WEFT STRAIGHTENER, wire weaver, WIRE WEAVER, CLOTH, WOOD HANDLER, Wooden Horse of Troy, wooden tubbingYsolde. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO BACK UP": Anacrusis, Anaphora, Anastrophe. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO BACK UP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ok, now I'm gonna have to back up over you with my whoopass mobile. (Good Morning, Miami; writing credit: James Grissom; David Kohan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TO BACK UP

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Let sleeping dogs lie unless the car starts to back up. Apparently there was no leash law at Puntarenas as dogs seemed to roam about the town at will. Credit: Small World.

I am telling you--On June 28th I expect you to enlist in the army of war savers to back up my army of fighters / James Montgomery Flagg. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO BACK UP

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Azerbaijan

The project, subject to approval from relevant governmental authorities, will create a fiber optic backbone to back up existing microwave telecommunications for the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli and Shah Deniz (SD) development and for two major onshore oil and gas pipelines. (references)

Political Economy

Senegal

Policies and actions have yet to back up these declarations, however, and the government still has much work to do to wean the public away from years of "cradle-to-grave" socialist tendencies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO BACK UP

Language Translations for "TO BACK UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

avaliser. (various references)

   

German

  

billigen (approve, endorse, uphold), bürgen (bailsmen, guarantee, vouch for, warrant, warrantors). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

támogat (abet, advocate, aid, assist, back, back up, bear up, befriend, bolster, champion, espouse, Favor, favour, Foster, further, help, hold up, lean, maintain, promote, provide support, reinforce, side, stand for, stick by, subsidize, support, sustain, to advocate, to aid, to assist, to bolster up, to come out for sy, to espouse, to faster, to favor, to flank, to foster, to further, to give countenance to sy, to hold up, to patronize, to second, to side with sy, to subserve, to subsidize, to succour, to support, to thicken, upbear, uphold), segít (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, help, lean, minister, relieve, succor, succour, support, sustain, to aid, to assist, to avail, to bear a hand, to help, to lend a hand, to minister, to stead, to succour, to support). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ackbay upay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BACK UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: backout, outback.

-2 letters: backup.

-3 letters: about, bucko, caput, coapt, kaput, pucka.

-4 letters: abut, atop, auto, back, boat, bock, bota, bout, buck, capo, coat, coup, pack, pact, pock, pout, puck, tabu, tack, taco, tuba, tuck.

-5 letters: abo, act, apt, auk, bap, bat, boa, bop, bot, but, cab, cap, cat, cob, cop, cot, cub, cup, cut, kab.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO BACK UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 41 43 4B      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0041 0043 004B      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544923635374525550

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Non-English Dictionaries with "TO BACK UP"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, francia

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionallemand, német

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításhongrois, Ungar, magyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, angol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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