TO PUT BACK

Definition: TO PUT BACK

1. (Naut.), to turn back; to return. ``The French . . . had put back to Toulon.'' --Southey.

Familiar Quotations: TO PUT BACK

Non-Fiction Usage: TO PUT BACK

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Recently, the PIA management has decided to put back into commission its grounded Boeing 747-200s and two Airbuses in time for the Haj (Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca) airlifts scheduled for January 2000. In order to facilitate this operation, PIA has signed an agreement with General Electric for the supply of engines and spare parts. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO PUT BACK

Language		Translations for "TO PUT BACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		visszavet (push back, put back, to set back, to throw back), visszaigazít (to reset an instrument to zero, to set back), megtagad (deny, disown, refuse, renounce, repudiate, to disavow, to disown, to recant, to refuse, to renounce, to repudiate, withhold), elutasít (disclaim, dismiss, overrule, rebuff, refuse, reject, rule out, spurn, to decline, to discourage, to dismiss, to negative, to overrule, to project, to rebuff, to refuse, to reject, to repel, to repudiate, to repulse, to resist, to scout, to spurn, to throw out, to traverse, to turn away, to turn down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		繰り戻す , 戻す (to restore, to return). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くりもどす, もどす (to restore, to return). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay utpay ackbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO PUT BACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-o-p-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: backout, buttock, outback.
	-3 letters: backup, kaputt, outact.
	-4 letters: about, battu, bucko, caput, coapt, cotta, kaput, pucka, putto.
	-5 letters: abut, atop, auto, back, batt, boat, bock, bota, bott, bout, buck, butt, capo, coat, coup, pack, pact, pock, pout, puck, putt, tabu, tack, taco, tact, taut, tout, tuba, tuck.
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Alternative Orthography: TO PUT BACK

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

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

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

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Author	Quotation
Earl Wilson	Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.