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Definitions: Backboard |
BackboardNoun1. A raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball; "he banked the shot off the backboard". 2. A board used to support the back of someone or something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Sports & Leisure | Each of the two backboards shall be of any rigid material. . . . The backboard shall be. . . a rectangle 6 feet horizontally and 4 feet vertically. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BackboardSynonym: basketball backboard (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Backboard |
| English words defined with "backboard": bank shot, basketball backboard ♦ free throw lane ♦ lay-up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "backboard": free throw line ♦ PROFILE-SAW OPERATOR ♦ REPEAT-PHOTOCOMPOSING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SHAKE BACKBOARD NOTCHER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Backboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backboard" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "backboard": basketball backboard. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
basketball backboard | 113 |
backboard | 35 |
backboard tennis | 16 |
backboard basketball dimension | 12 |
basketball goal backboard | 11 |
acrylic backboard | 7 |
basketball hoop backboard | 5 |
acrylic basketball backboard | 4 |
backboard dimension | 4 |
huffy basketball backboard | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "球板, 籃板 . (various references) | |
Farsi | تخته یاصفحه ء پشت هرچیزی , تخته ء پشت قاب عکس وغیره . (various references) | |
French | panneau (bank of solar cells). (various references) | |
Greek | ράχη (bank, bulk, edge, haunch, narrow face, peduncle, ridge, ridge of high pressure, saddle, spine, tergum, thickness, wedge), ακουμπιστήρι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | palánk (fence, pale, paling, palisade, plank, planking). (various references) | |
Italian | retro (back, rear, verso), piano di sostegno, parte posteriore (back, backside, rear). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackboardbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encosto (adjacent strata, associated beds, associated strata, attendant strata, country rock, roof and floor strata, strata, surrounding rock), encostar (lean, support, sustain). (various references) | |
Russian | задняя панель. (various references) | |
Spanish | tabla trasera, respaldo (back, backing, backrest, backup, prop, support). (various references) | |
Swedish | ryggstöd (backrest, support for the back). (various references) | |
Thai | กระ"าน"้านหลังห่วงในกีฬาบาสเก็ตบอล. (various references) | |
Ukranian | спинка (back), задній борт грузовика. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backboard": backboards. (additional references) | |
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"Backboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backbars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-d-k-o-r" | |
-3 letters: aboard, abroad. | |
-4 letters: aback, babka, board, broad, brock, cabob, carbo, carob, cobra, croak, dobra, kabab, kabar, kabob. | |
-5 letters: abba, arak, arco, baba, back, barb, bard, bark, boar, bock, bora, brad, carb, card, cark, cobb, coda, cord, cork, crab, darb, dark, dock, dork, drab, kbar, okra, orad, orca, rack, road, rock. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-c-d-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: backboards, blackboard. | |
+2 letters: blackboards. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 62 6F 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- -... --- .- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k b o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366769776881678470 |
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