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Back Porch

Definition: Back Porch

Back Porch

Noun

1. A porch for the back door.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Back Porch

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	The portion of a video signal that occurs during blanking from the end of horizontal sync to the beginning of active video. The blanking signal portion which lies between the trailing edge of a horizontal sync pulse and the trailing edge of the corresponding blanking pulse. Source: European Union. (references)
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Commercial Usage: Back Porch

Domain	Title
Books	A Toast to Baldy Red: Back Porch Ballads and Parlour Poems (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Back Porch Hillbilly Blues 1 (reference) Best of Back Porch Majority (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Back Porch

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Back porch and wing of farm house to left; fenced in patch and tree to right. Credit: Library of Congress.		My own back porch. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Calloway residence, back porch, with chair, Mamaroneck, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.		Back porch on a washday. Gibbs City, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmer's sons, washing for noon meal on back porch. They supervise the migratory workers in the field and tend to the weighing of hops. Credit: Library of Congress.		Farmers eating ice cream on the back porch while their wives attended the bimonthly meeting of the Helping Hand society. Gage County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The back porch of Oscar Gaither's farmhouse near McLeansboro, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Thomas Festa and one of her children. FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, Italian, on the back porch of her house two miles out of Newtown, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Plants and flowers in oil cans on back porch of miner's house. Capels, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.		Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Earle Landis freezing ice cream on the back porch on Thanksgiving day. When it gets hard, his son sits on the freezer to hold it down. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Back Porch

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Guatemala	Unknown assailants also threw a live fragmentation grenade onto the back porch of her house the night before the trial began. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Back Porch

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
back porch	82
back porch restaurant	16
back porch design	12
aunt kizzys back porch	8
back porch plan	4
back porch skippack	2
back porch press	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Back Porch

Language		Translations for "back porch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		palier arrière. (various references)

Pig Latin		ackbay orchpay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Back Porch

Misspellings
	"Back Porch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backporch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Back Porch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-h-k-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: caprock.
	-3 letters: barhop, broach, carhop, caroch, coprah.
	-4 letters: abhor, acock, brach, brock, carbo, carob, chark, chock, coach, cobra, copra, crack, croak, crock, orach, parch, poach, porch, roach.
	-5 letters: arch, arco, bach, back, bark, boar, bock, bora, caph, capo, carb, cark, carp, chao, chap, char, chop, coca, cork, crab, crap, croc, crop, hack, hark, harp.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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