Backing

Definition: Backing

Backing

Noun

1. The act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives".

2. Something forming a back that is added for strengthening.

3. Financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment".

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

Date "backing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Archeological

Chemical Industry

Finance

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Backing

Crosswords: Backing

You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me a another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong)

Backing off of the North East wind, ("Everybody's Talkin'"; performing artist: Nilsson)

With backing vocals ("Free Fallin'"; performing artist: Tom Petty)

Back to Backing (1926)

Backing In 7 (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Backing Down The Ladder (reference)

• Backing Hard Into River History (reference)

• Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (reference)

• Backing into Heaven (reference)

• Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• 7-Minute Solutions Backing (reference)

• Backing Training Kit (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Backing the Long Shot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Avery Inkjet Transparencies Clear With Paper Backing (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW4706 4-1/2" Backing Flange for the DW402, DW402G, DW818 (reference)

• DeWalt DW4945 4-1/2" Rubber Backing Pad with 5/8-11" Locking Nut (reference)

• DeWalt DW4990 7" Super Flex Quick Change Rubber Backing Pad (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Backing up a sandy hill Taking full advantange of lower gear ratio Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View looking down "Battleship Row" from Ford Island Naval Air Station, shortly after the Japanese torpedo plane attack. USS California (BB-44) is at left, listing to port after receiving two torpedo hits. In the center are USS Maryland (BB-46) with the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) alongside. USS Neosho (AO-23) is at right, backing clear of the area. Most smoke is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Credit: NAVY.

Backing down in a south Pacific harbor, 25 October 1942. Photographed by USS Tangier (AV-8). Credit: NAVY.

A heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2) blows an aircraft over her side, 8 May 1942. This is probably the "great explosion" from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that took place just after the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Frederick C. Sherman, left Lexington. At left is the bow of USS Hammann (DD-412), which was backing away with a load of the carrier's survivors on board. This view appears to be cropped from Photo # 80-G-7413. Credit: NAVY.

Backing out of drydock at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, on 6 June 1925. Credit: NAVY.

View of the ship's starboard quarter, showing the jury rudder fitted after she had lost her rudder post and rudder in the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa. This view shows the rudder topped after backing. Probably taken at Honolulu, Hawaii, after Nipsic had arrived from Samoa, circa August 1889. Credit: NAVY.

Engraved plan of a section of the ship's side armor, showing armor support, backing and 10-inch iron armor, as planned for installation in 1874. This armor scheme reflects the ship's ultimate configuration, with a monitor-type armored extension around the hull at the waterline. Published in the book: "The Stevens Ironclad Battery", in 1874. The original volume is held by the Navy Department Library. Credit: NAVY.

Furniture and other home furnishings. Chaise lounge with cane backing in front of garage, with masking. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boys, we're backing you! Carnegie Steel Company subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation / / Marie Wilson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In and out the squares moved, crossing, backing, whirling, and the music shrilled

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Normally the hiatus and the lower esophageal sphincter line up with each other to keep stomach contents from backing up into the esophagus (a condition called reflux). (references)

The ureters and bladder normally prevent urine from backing up toward the kidneys, and the flow of urine from the bladder helps wash bacteria out of the body. In men, the prostate gland produces secretions that slow bacterial growth. (references)

Business

Financial service end-users tend to seek backing from those financial institutions with which they are considering doing business. (references)

By employing solid backing, successful marketing techniques are based on providing consistency and sufficient security to the consumer. (references)

Along with local and international non-profit research entities and the World Bank, the national government has been backing the promotion of renewable energy as a viable, beneficial and potentially profitable activity. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

This backing gives these newspapers an advantage over smaller, more independent newspapers. (references)

Bangladesh

On January 25, political activists, reportedly with the support and backing of M.P. Joynal Hazari, beat and stabbed the United News of Bangladesh's (UNB) correspondent in Feni, Tipu Sultan. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

A new President, Bashir Gemayel, was elected with acknowledged Israeli backing. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Extortion from businesses and individuals by persons with political backing was common, and businessmen on several occasions went on strikes to protest the extortion. (references)

Angola

In practice the judicial system lacked the means, experience, training, and political backing to assert its independence from the President and the ruling MPLA party. (references)

Italy

The courts absolved Andreotti in both cases, stating that prosecutors failed to produce concrete evidence backing up vague and contradictory testimony by the pentiti, but they also asserted that Andreotti had lied at the trials. (references)

Minorities

East Timor

Ethnic Chinese businessmen have been subjected to extortion and harassment, at times from elements reportedly associated with the CNRT, which accuses the Chinese businessmen (who make up less than 1 percent of the population) of, among other things, financially backing rival groups. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

This GCC-adopted standard is in violation of the WTO SPS agreement as scientific studies backing the regulations have yet to be produced. (references)

VENEZUELA

COMANPI works closely with private sector representatives of the U.S. copyright industry, who provide the unit with intelligence information, financial backing and training. (references)

Trade

France

In these cases, COFACE acts on behalf of and with the backing of the French Government. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

Nevertheless, some union activists who run for public office receive unofficial backing from their unions. (references)

Bahamas

Following the suspensions, the Bahamas Air Traffic Controllers Union received the backing of two major labor confederations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "backing": backing storage ♦ backing store ♦ backing track ♦ backing up ♦ backing wind ♦ financial backing ♦ gold backing ♦ piggy backing ♦ unitary backing. Additional references.

Beginning with "backing": backing-away, backing-the, backing-up.

Ending with "backing": asset-backing, cmos-backing, double-backing, drum-backing, foam-backing, piggy-backing, Tory-backing.

Containing "backing": Union-jack-i'm-backing-britain.

Albanian

shpinë (back, rake, rear, spine), përkrahje (abetment, advocacy, aliment, backup, boost, buttress, championship, espousal, Favor, favour, furtherance, intercession, paternalism, patronage, promotion, prop, protection, push, support), ndihmë financiare (grant, grant-in-aid), mbështetës (adhesive, alimentary, friend, help, recliner, recumbent, staff, supporting, sustaining, sustentive). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مساعدات, ‏مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, aid, ancillary, assistance, auxiliary, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏عون (aid, assistance, benefit, boost, comfort, lift, relief, succor, succour), ‏جماعة المؤيدين, ‏الظهارة كل ما يكسى به ظهر, ‏دعم (back, back up, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подкрепа (advocacy, aid, championship, comfort, corroboration, help, maintenance, patronage, promotion, prop, support, sustentation, umbrella, yeoman service), подплата (lap, liner, lining). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�持 (support, to back, to be in favor of, to stand by, to support), 依托. (various references)

Czech

podpora (assistance, backup, boost, encouragement, furtherance, lift, pension, promotion, relief, subsidy, subvention, support). (various references)

Danish

bogens runding, bagmurselementer (load-bearing backing), bærer (backer, carrier, vector), vinddrejning, vekselkaution (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety), vekselborgen (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety), underlag (backer, base, basis, carrier, clamping block, cradle, firring, furring, packing block, packing piece, roadbed, shim, shim block, substrate, support, underlay), stoettemur (propping, retaining, shoring, supporting), stangkoblet, skraaning (slope), lejebøsning (bearing, bearing brass, bearing lining, bearing shell, bearing support, bolster, bush, bushing, journal bearing, liner backing, shell, sleeve, supporting back, supporting shell), grundvæv, for (by, for, from, of, on, since, to, too, too much, toward, towards), drager (porter), aval (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety). (various references)

Dutch

binnenschaal (load-bearing backing), voering (lining), rug (back, mountain ridge), onderlaag (backer, carrier, roadbed, substrate), lagerschaal (bearing, bearing brass, bearing bush, bearing half, bearing liner, bearing lining, bearing shell, bearing support, bolster, brass, bush, bushing, half bearing, journal bearing, liner backing, lower lining, plain shaft bearing, plummer block bearing, shell, sleeve, sleeve bearing, supporting back, supporting shell), krimpen (back, contraction, shrink on a piece on to another, shrinkage, shrink-fit, to contract, to shrink, to shrink on), geisoleerde binnenspouw (load-bearing backing), aval (guarantee, guarantee of a bill), achtervulling. (various references)

Finnish

vekselitakaus (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety), tuulen kääntyminen vastapäivään (back), pohjakangas, peräytyminen (backtracking, depth-first backward reasoning), laakerivaippa (bearing shell, bearing support, liner backing, shell, supporting back, supporting shell), avaali (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety), alusta (base, basis, bed, bench, chassis, coaster, easel, foundation, mat, mount, stand, tressle, workbench). (various references)

French

support (backer, barrel). (various references)

German

unterstützung (aid, assistance, benefit, encouragement, grant, maintenance, promotion, relief, sponsorship, support), begleitung (accompaniment, attendance, chaperonage, companion, company, entourage, escort, retinue), Zusatz (accessory, addend, addition, additive, add-on, adjunct, admixture, amendment, application, apposition, codicil, endorsement, replacement, replenishment, rider, separable element, supplement), zusätzlich (accessorily, accessory, added, additional, additionally, ancillary, collateral, extra, further, other, side-bar, supplementary), rückendeckung (rear cover). (various references)

Greek 

κύρτωμα της ράχης βιβλίου, συμπαράσταση (support), υποστήριγμα (bracket, cantilever, crutch, shore, strut, support, suspensory, sustainment), υποστήριξη (countenance, maintenance, patronage, subvention, support), υποχώρηση (deference, recedence, recession, recoil, retreat, setback, subsidence), υλικό στήριξης (backer, carrier), φωλεά χιτωνίου εδράνου (bearing shell, bearing support, liner backing, shell, supporting back, supporting shell), εγγύηση συναλλαγματικής (aval, back up, bill guarantee, endorsement, guarantee, surety), επένδυση (casing, coating, investment, plating), αντιστήριξη (shoring), τριτεγγύηση (guaranty). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'בוי (back up, collected, paid up). (various references)

Hungarian

tét (bet, pot, stake), támogatók, támogatás (advocacy, aid, assistance, countenance, encouragement, espousal, favor, help, lean, promotion, protection, sponsorship, subservience, subserviency, subsidization, support, sustain), hátlap (back, left-hand page, reverse, verso), fogadás (bet, betting, flutter, gamble, reception, salon, wager). (various references)

Indonesian

beking. (various references)

Italian

sostegno (brace, crutch, hold, prop, sponsorship, strut, support). (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, backhand, 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), 御�"� (assistance), 御�"�様 (assistance), 後ろ楯 (protection, supporter), 後援 (support), 後押し (boosting, pushing), 幇助 (assistance), 援護 (covering, protection, relief), 尻押し (instigation, instigator, pushing from behind, supporting), 掩護 (covering, protection, relief), 裏�"ち (lining, vouching for), � 勢 (assistance, reinforcements), 助勢 (encouragement, reinforcements), お�"� (assistance), お�"�様 (assistance), 肩入れ (patronage, support), �"� (shade, your assistance), 裏付 (collateral, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), 裏付け (collateral, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), �"�援 (aid, support). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うらうち (lining, vouching for), じょせい (aiding, assistance, assisting, encouragement, female voice, fostering, one's son-in-law, reinforcements, schoolgirl, woman), あとおし (boosting, pushing), �"うえ�" (address, flame, good performance, incense smoke, lecture, light and flame, lofty, mouth ulcer, noble, oral presentation, park, prominence, public performance, red flame, stomatitis, support, vast and far-reaching), か�' (other side, shade, shadow, your assistance), かせい (assistance, caustic, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, false, falsetto, force of flames, great poet, growth, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny), かたいれ (patronage, support), え�"�" (associated word, covering, protection, relief), うらづけ (collateral, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), すけぜい (encouragement, reinforcements), うしろ� て (protection, supporter), しえ�" (aid, personal grudge or enmity, purple smoke, rehearsal, support, tobacco smoke, trial performance), しりおし (instigation, instigator, pushing from behind, supporting), バッキング , おか�' (assistance, thanks or owing to), おか�'さま (assistance), ほうじょ (assistance). (various references)

Korean 

역행 (regression, Retrogradation). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackingbay.(various references)

Portuguese

suporte (base, basis, brace, bracing, bracket, buttress, carrier, column, crutch, foot, girder, hanger, hold, holder, holdfast, lay-over, leg, mounting, pedestal, pillow, pillow-block, post, prop, ribbing, socket, stake, stanchion, stand, stay, stock, stool, supporter, tie-plate), forro (ceiling, facing, liner, lining, plafond, service, tapestry, wall covering). (various references)

Romanian

sprijin (aid, assistance, comfort, furtherance, help, ministration, patronage, prop, reliance, reposal, saddle, service, staff, stay, strength, succor, succour, support, supporter), retragere (climb down, recall, recession, refuge, regress, retire, retirement, retiring, retraction, retreat, seclusion, withdrawal), mişcare înapoi, intrare de serviciu, ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder). (various references)

Russian 

возвращать внешний, закладка (bookmark, marker, stowage, tassel), поддержка (boost, comfort, espousal, furtherance, maintenance, nourishment, push, support, sustenance, sustenation, sustention). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potpora (brace, buttress, falsework, help, prop, stay, support, sustenance, sustention, trestle), podrška (aliment, backup, boost, support, sustenance), oslonac (backbone, hold, rest, standfast, support, supporter). (various references)

Spanish

apoyo (advocacy, bolster, buttress, countenance, Favor, favour, purchase, rest, support, upholder), soporte (backstay, bearer, bearing, bracket, calipers, callipers, holder, mounting, pillar, rest, shell, support, supporter, tee, wearer). (various references)

Swedish

bottenväv, backning (reversing), backa (back, go astern, reverse), bärare (bearer, carrier, exponent, porter, redcap, sky-cap), uppbackning (support), stöd (abutment, buttress, console, countenance, crutch, endorsement, indorsation, indorsement, linchpin, litter, patronage, prop, rest, server, stand by, stay, support, supporter, trestle), ryggning, lagerbussning (bearing shell, bearing support, liner backing, shell, supporting back, supporting shell), hjälp (aid, assist, assistance, furtherance, help, helpmate, ministration, remedy, service, succour, support), grundstomme (groundwork, nucleus), ackompanjemang (accompaniment, descant, vamp). (various references)

Turkish

yardım (aid, alms, assist, assistance, backup, booster, comfort, contribution, cooperation, dole, donation, donative, Favor, favour, furtherance, hand, help, helpfulness, lift, relief, rescue, shot, stand by, succor, succour, support, sustenance, welfare), torpil (friend at court, influence, mine, oracle, pie, pull, push, torpedo), takviye (consolidation, fortification, fortifier, recruitment, reinforcement, strengthening, support), onay (acknowledgement, affirmation, approbation, approval, assent, certification, confirmation, endorsement, indorsement, legitimation, o.k., ok, okay, ratification, sanction, visa, vise), kayırma (Favor, favour, protection, pull, shadow), destekçiler, destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder), ciro (endorsement, Giro, indorsement), arkalık (back, backrest), arka (back, backer, breech, contuniation, dors-, dorso-, friend at court, hind, posterior, rear, rearward, reverse, reverse side, small, stern, support, supporter, tail). (various references)

Ukrainian

затримка (arrest, back-set, balk, check, delay, hold back, impediment, objection, retardment, retention, setback, stay, throw back), покриття (carpet, casing, chemise, coating, paintwork), підпірка (balk, chock, counterfort, pit prop, post, puncheon, shore, stanchion, trellis, upholder), підкладка (back, lining, pad, padding, pillow), підкріплення (afforcement, succours), підтримка (aegis, aliment, alimentation, boost, cheer, crutch, egis, espousal, favour, pick me up, prop, sanction, smiles, sponsorship, support, sustention, vindication), задник (back-cloth, backdrop), допомога (abetment, aid, assistance, bield, facilitation, furtherance, help, helping, relief, stipend, succor, succour), закріплення, субсидування, зміцнення (afforcement, consolidation, enforcement, stabilization, strengthening), зворотний бік (back page, reverse, verso), опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, bearer, buttress, cradle, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, stay, steady, stilt, stock, support, tower), виворіт (back), відступ (backdown, diversion, flinch, retreat), рух назад, схвалення (acceptance, accolade, allowance, applause, approbation, approof, approval, o.k., ok, okay, okey), запізнення (backwardness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giật lùi (retrogression, set-back, throw-back), sự giúp đỡ (aid, assistance, help, ministration, succor, succour). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "backing": backings. (additional references)

Words ending with "backing": linebacking, pickabacking, piggybacking, quarterbacking, switchbacking. (additional references)

Words containing "backing": linebackings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Backing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abeking, babkins, baching, bacin, bacino, backin, Bahktin, baiking, bakine, Bakongo, Baskine, Batkin, Buccinu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: baking, caking.

-2 letters: acing, cabin, kiang.

-3 letters: agin, akin, back, bang, bani, bank, cain, gain, gink, kain, kina, king, nick.

-4 letters: ain, ani, bag, ban, big, bin, cab, can, cig, gab, gan, gib, gin, ick, ink, kab, kin, nab, nag, nib.

-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, ba, bi, in, ka, na.

+1 letter: backings, blacking, wingback.

+2 letters: backswing, blackings, wingbacks.

+3 letters: backbiting, backdating, backfiring, backswings, barracking, bechalking, becloaking, blackening, blockading, bracketing, buckraming.

+4 letters: backbitings, backfilling, backfitting, backhanding, backhauling, backlashing, backlisting, backlogging, backpacking, backsliding, backspacing, backwashing, bivouacking, blackenings, bricklaying, linebacking, parbuckling.

+5 letters: backbreaking, backcrossing, backdropping, backlighting, backpedaling, backslapping, backstabbing, backstopping, backtracking, benchmarking, blackballing, blackbirding, blackjacking, blacklisting, blackmailing, blacktopping, bricklayings, bushwhacking, greenbackism, linebackings, pickabacking, piggybacking, roadblocking, thumbtacking.