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Definitions: Backlash |
BacklashNoun1. A movement back from an impact. 2. An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance". Verb1. Have an unexpected and undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Backlash \Back"lash`\, noun. [Back, adverb. lash.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | Dead space or unwanted movement in a control system. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Property of most regenerative and oscillator circuits by which oscillation is maintained with a smaller positive feedback than is required for inception. Source: European Union. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | In any mechanism, lost motion due to loose fitting or wear. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The sudden recoil from the bite of a saw tooth or cutter of wood being fed into it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The amount by which the width of a tooth space exceeds the thickness of the engaging tooth on the pitch circles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The return or counterblast, as the recoil or backward suction of the air current, produced after a mine explosion. Also called backblast; suction blast. b. The reentry of air into a fan. c. The violent recoil and whipping movement of the free ends of a rope or wire cable broken under strain d. Lost motion, play, or movement in moving parts such that the driving element (as a gear) can be reversed for some angle or distance beforeworking contact is again made with the secondary element. (references) |
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Synonyms: BacklashSynonyms: rebound (n), recoil (n), repercussion (n), backfire (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: kicked (food & agriculture, industry). |
Crosswords: Backlash |
| English words defined with "backlash": white backlash, whitelash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "backlash": erratic error. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Backlash (1956) Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996) Backlash (1994) | |
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Civil Liberties | Uganda | Complaints by Muslim groups of government bias lessened during the year; however, the backlash from the death of more than 1,000 citizens at the hands of a religious cult in 2000 resulted in negative public attitudes towards fringe Christian groups and the Government's forcible disbanding of some groups. (references) |
Economic History | Italy | Few, if any consumer products containing more than the 1% GM threshold for labeling are found at the retail level out of importer and supermarket chain' concern of a consumer backlash. (references) |
Minorities | Uganda | However, the backlash from the spring 2000 killing of more than 1,000 citizens at the hands of a religious group resulted in negative public attitudes towards fringe Christian groups. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Backlash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.34% of the time. "Backlash" is used about 246 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 96.34% | 237 | 19,467 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.63% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.81% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.81% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 246 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "backlash": backlash error ♦ white backlash. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
backlash | 73 |
backlash wwe | 46 |
backlash class | 5 |
backlash result wwe | 5 |
2003 backlash | 4 |
backlash chick dixie | 3 |
prozac backlash | 3 |
backlash gear | 3 |
backlash feminism | 3 |
wwf backlash | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backlash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | reagim i ashpër, masa shtypëse, lëkundje (dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), kundërplasje. (various references) | |
Arabic | الحركة الارتجاعية, الحرتقة إرتجاج الشئ, إرتجاج أجزاء الماكينة, رد فعل عنيف (song). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мъртъв ход (play), засечка (falter, fluff, hitch, kink, misfire), изплъзване на витло. (various references) | |
Chinese | 后退 (recede, Receded, receding, recession, retrograde). (various references) | |
Czech | zpìtný náraz (rebound), vùle (outlet, volition, will), odveta (reprisal, retaliation, retort, retortion, retribution, return, revenge, vengeance). (various references) | |
Danish | slør (bloom, blooming, blurring, blushing, fog, haze, slur), mekanisk slør, kast (ejection, haul, kick, kickback, release), hystereseeffekt. (various references) | |
Dutch | tandwielspeling, tandspeling, speling (caprice, clearance, float, float time, latitude, leeway, room, slack, space, whim), retro-actieve aandrijving, achterwaartse beweging (kick, kickback). (various references) | |
Farsi | پس زنی (Backstroke, Jib, Kick, Rebuttal, Recess, Repercussion, Repulse), پس زدن (Rebound, Rebut, Recoil, Setback), عکس العمل سیاسی . (various references) | |
Finnish | takapotku (kick, kickback), kylkivälys. (various references) | |
French | traînage, tolérance, secousse, saccade, ressac d'hostilité, recul (back, back stroke), réaction d'hostilité, jeu mécanique, jeu entre-dents, jeu entre dents, jeu, contre-coup, choc en retour. (various references) | |
German | toter gang (play), Rückwirkung (repercussion, retroaction, retroactive effect, retroactivity). (various references) | |
Greek | νεκρή διαδρομή, μηχανική αντίδραση, παλινδρόμηση (backflow, reciprocating, reflux, regression, retrogression, traversing), χάρη οδόντωσης, χάρη (behalf, comeliness, cuteness, Favor, favour, grace, pardon, sake), αντίδραση (counteraction, decomposition, reactance, reaction, response, transformation), τζόγος (gambling), διάκενο (clearance, electrode separation, electrode spacing, following distance, gap, gap between electrodes, interstice, interstitium, vehicular gap). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"רתע לאחור (spring back), ת'וב" חריפ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | holtjáték (give, latitude, slack), visszahatás (reaction, reactiveness, repercussion, retroaction, retroactivity, revulsion), reakció (reaction, response), játék (acting, clearance, game, performance, play, quiz, slack, sport, toy), hézag (airspace, clearance, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, Lacuna, leak, missing link, scupper, slack, yawn). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tendangan, serangan balasan (counterattack). (various references) | |
Italian | gioco (amusement, dice, fun, gambling, game, play, sport, touch, toy). (various references) | |
Korean | 반동 (reactive, rebound, recoil, Recoiling). (various references) | |
Manx | aawoalley (kickback, react, reaction, repercussion, reverberate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklashbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recuo (backing, backward travel, dereliction, fallback, flinch, kick, kickback, rebound, recess, recession, recoil, resign, retirement, retreat, return, slip). (various references) | |
Russian | мертвый ход (end play). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zazor (clearance), naglo vraćanje, mrtvi hod (play). (various references) | |
Spanish | barra invertida (backslash), retroceso (backspace, back-space, backward motion, decline, feedback, going down, recession, recoil, regress, regression, retrogression), rebote (bounce, bouncing, kick, kickback, pousse, rebound, rebound effect, ricochet, skip), reacción (decomposition, feedback, kickback, reaction, response, revulsion, transformation), juego mecánico, juego entre dientes, juego (array, court, gambling, game, movement, play, rubber, service, set, sport, suite, working), holgadura, efecto retroactivo (retroactive effect), contragolpe (kickback). (various references) | |
Swedish | glapp (loose, play). (various references) | |
Turkish | boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), beklenmedik sonuç, ters tepki (feedback, kickback), salgı (discharge, excretion, humor, humour, juice, liquor, secretion, secretory), laçka (crank, cranky, slack). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ковзання (glide, glissade, skidding, slide, slip, slipping), мертвий хід. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backlash": backlashed, backlasher, backlashers, backlashes, backlashing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "backlash": antibacklash. (additional references) | |
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"Backlash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backblast, backglass, backlasht, Bikash, blacklash, Bracklesham. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backlash" (pronounced ba"kla'sh) |
| 3 | -l a' sh | backslash, eyelash, whiplash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-h-k-l-s" | |
-2 letters: blacks, cabals, calash, casbah, chalks, kasbah. | |
-3 letters: aback, abash, alack, albas, baals, backs, balas, balks, balsa, basal, black, blahs, cabal, calks, chalk, clash, hacks, kasha, lacks, lakhs, shack, slack. | |
-4 letters: aahs, aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, baal, baas, bach, back, balk, bals, bash, bask, blah, cabs, calk, casa, cash, cask, hack, kaas, kabs, labs, lack, lacs, lakh, lash, sack, scab, slab. | |
-5 letters: aah, aal, aas, aba, abs, aha, ala, alb, als, ash, ask, baa, bah, bal, bas, cab, has, kab, kas, lab, lac, las, sab, sac, sal, sha, ska. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-h-k-l-s" | |
+1 letter: backhauls, backslash, flashback, halfbacks. | |
+2 letters: backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, backsplash, blackheads, flashbacks, whalebacks. | |
+3 letters: backlashers, backlashing, backslashes, blackhearts, chalkboards. | |
+4 letters: antibacklash, backsplashes, blackhanders, leatherbacks. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 6C 61 73 68 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- .-.. .- ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k l a s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 006C 0061 0073 0068 |
| 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)3667697778678574 |
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