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Definitions: Backhand |
BackhandAdjective1. (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke. 2. (of handwriting) having the letters slanting from left down to right. Noun1. A return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke. Verb1. Hit a tennis ball backhand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backhand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
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Mining | In bituminous coal mining, one who assists either the machineman or machine loader to move and set up a coal cutting or loading machine at theworking face. (references) |
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Synonyms: BackhandSynonyms: backhand(a) (adj), backhanded (adj), left-slanting (adj), backhand shot (n), backhand stroke (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: forehand(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Backhand |
| English words defined with "backhand": backhand drive, backhand shot, backhand stroke ♦ play ♦ two-handed backhand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "backhand": backhand welding. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Backhand" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (backhand), Swedish (backhand). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Backhand (1995) | |
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| "Backhand" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Backhand" is used about 15 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adverb (general) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "backhand": backhand blow ♦ backhand drive ♦ backhand shot ♦ backhand stroke ♦ backhand welding. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
backhand | 34 |
tennis backhand | 26 |
backhand spring | 9 |
agassi backhand | 6 |
two handed backhand | 5 |
backhand slice | 5 |
backhand beginning grip in tennis | 4 |
backhand slice tennis | 4 |
backhand grip | 3 |
backhand handed one | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backhand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pabesë (disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, perfidious, punic, sacrilegious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, viperous). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضربة بقفا اليد, خط مائلة حروفه إلى الخلف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наклонен назад почерк, бекхенд. (various references) | |
Chinese | 反手 (Backhander). (various references) | |
Czech | backhand. (various references) | |
Danish | modsvejsning (backhand welding, backward welding, rightward welding), hoejresvejsning (backhand welding, backward welding, rightward welding). (various references) | |
Dutch | naar rechts lassen (backhand welding, backward welding, rightward welding), achterwaarts lassen (backhand welding, backward welding, rightward welding). (various references) | |
Farsi | پشت دستی یاضربه باپشت راکت , ناهنجار (Abnormal, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), باپشت راکت ضربت واردکردن , باپشت دست ضربه زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | oikeallehitsaus (backhand welding, backward welding, rightward welding). (various references) | |
French | penché gauche, en revers. (various references) | |
German | rückhand. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fonák ütés (backhand stroke, forehand stroke). (various references) | |
Italian | rovescio (back, downfall, heavy shower, opposite, other side, reverse, shower, wrong side). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backing, backless, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex, Vatican). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バックハンド . (various references) | |
Manx | builley cooyl (backhand blow, backhander). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackhandbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | golpe dado com as costas da mão, costas da mão. (various references) | |
Romanian | rever (lapel), nesincer (devious, disingenuous, double faced, hollow-hearted, insincere, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous, truthless), indirect (circuitous, circumlocutory, circumstantial, collateral, indirect, indirectly, intermediate, oblique, reflex, roundabout), dos al palmei, cu dosul mâinii, înclinat spre stâng. (various references) | |
Russian | удар слева. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bekhend. (various references) | |
Spanish | reves (back, flipside, rear, reverse), revés (back, backhand stroke, backset, backstroke, check, come down, rear, reverse, reverse side, setback, upset), letra inclinada hacia la izquierda, dado con el dorso de la mano. (various references) | |
Swedish | backhand. (various references) | |
Turkish | ters vuruş (backhander, backstroke), sola yatık elyazısı. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quả trái chữ viết ngả về tay trái. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backhand": backhanded, backhandedly, backhander, backhanders, backhanding, backhands. (additional references) | |
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"Backhand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ackham, Akhund, Bacchiad, Bakha, Bakhim, Bakuhan, Beckhard, Bhakthan, Buckham. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backhand" (pronounced ba"kha'nd) |
| 4 | -h a' n d | beforehand, farmhand, forehand, freehand, longhand, secondhand, shorthand, stagehand. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, Badland, bandstand, broadband, contraband, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, Fatherland, firebrand, flatland, grandstand, grassland, handstand, headband, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, newsstand, nightstand, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, Southland, spaceband, sunland, Timberland, undermanned, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-h-k-n" | |
-3 letters: aback, dacha. | |
-4 letters: ankh, bach, back, band, bank, chad, dank, dhak, hack, hand, hank, kana, khan, nada. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, aha, ana, and, baa, bad, bah, ban, cab, cad, can, dab, dah, dak, had, kab, nab, nah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-h-k-n" | |
+1 letter: backhands. | |
+2 letters: backhanded, backhander. | |
+3 letters: backhanders, backhanding, blackhander. | |
+4 letters: backhandedly, blackhanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 68 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- .... .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k h a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0068 0061 006E 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)3667697774678070 |
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