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Definition: SPRING BACK |
SPRING BACK1. (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elasticity | Verb: stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic. Adjective: bounce, spring back. (recoil). |
Recoil | Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPRING BACK |
| English words defined with "SPRING BACK": bounce, bound ♦ kick, kick back ♦ rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet ♦ spring ♦ take a hop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPRING BACK": Let's bounce. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We need the love energy to bring Spring back to the country of Lovely Dream and to melt the frozen dreams. (Mah no yousei Pelsia; writing credit: Yoshiyuki Kishi) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "SPRING BACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | zurückspringen (be set back, bound back, jump back, leap back, recoil, to recoil), zurückschrecken (blench, boggle, cringe, deter, discourage, recoil, scare, shrink back, shy away, start back, to blench), zurückschnellen (recoil, to spring back, whip back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"רתע לאחור (backlash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaugrik (rebound, recoil, to rebound, to recoil, to spring back), visszapattan (bounce, rebound, recoil, ricochet, to bound, to recoil, to screw, to spring back), visszahőköl (to blench, to flounce, to recoil, to spring back), visszacsapódik (to spring back, to whip back), hátraugrik (jump back, to spring back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mencuatkan (flip, push away with a spring motion), cuat (be dipped), bidas (attack verbally, fly from). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheimyraght er ash, lheimmey ergooyl (recoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingspray ackbay возвращаться к жизни (spring back to life). (various references) відскочити (recoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SPRING BACK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: springback. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-i-k-n-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: backings, backspin, bracings, carpings, gripsack, packings, parkings, scarping, scraping, sparking. | |
-3 letters: arcking, backing, bakings, barking, basking, bipacks, bracing, braking, carking, carping, casking, craping, packing, parings, parking, parsing, racings, racking, rasping, sabring, sacking, sacring, scaping, scaring, spacing, sparing. | |
-4 letters: arcing, asking, bairns, baking, baring, basing, bipack, brains, branks, bricks, brings, brinks, cabins, cairns, caking. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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