Back-to-back

Definition

back /bæk/ n ၁။ ေက်ာဘက္။ ေနာက္ေက်ာ။ He had a bad cut on the back of his head. ❍ You've got a stain on the back of your shirt. ❍ The index is at the back (of the book). ❍ We sat in the back of the car (ie in the seats behind the driver). ❍ I was at the back (of the cinema) and couldn't see well. ❍ a room at the back of the house ❍ a house with a garden at the back ❍ Write your address on the back (of the cheque). ❍ the back of one's hand (ie not the palm). Compare FRONT ၁ ၂။ (က) ေက်ာျပင္။ ေက်ာကုန္း။ ေက်ာ႐ိုး။ He lay on his back and looked up at the sky. ❍ She broke her back in a climbing accident. (ခ) တိရစၧာန္ ေက်ာကုန္း။ Fasten the saddle on the horse's back. ၃။ ကုလားထိုင္ေက်ာမီွ။ ၄။ (ေဘာလံုးကဲ့သို႔ ကစားနည္း မ်ဳိးတြင္) ေနာက္တန္းလူ။ Compare FORWARD n adj (esp attrib and in compounds; no comparative or superlative) ၁။ ေနာက္၌ရိွေသာ။ ေနာက္။ the back door. ❍ HOUSE ❍ Put your bag on the back seat of the car. ❍ back teeth ❍ sit in the back row ❍ a back room (ie one at the back of a building) ❍ the back page of a newspaper. Compare FRONT adj ၂။ (က) ယခင္ (ကထုတ္ေဝခဲ့ ေသာ)။ အေဟာင္း။ back issues of a magazine. (ခ) ေႂကြးက်န္။ back pay/ taxes/ rent. adv part, adv ၁။ (က) ေနာက္သို႔။ I stepped back to let them pass. ❍ Sit back and relax. ❍ You've combed your hair back. ❍ He turned and looked back. ❍ She fell back towards the end of the race. Compare FORWARD adj ၁ (ခ) ေနာက္သို႔။ အနည္းငယ္။ The barriers failed to keep/ hold the crowds back. ❍ Our house stands back from the road. ❍ Stand back and give me some room. (ဂ) ထိန္းထားလ်က္။ ခ်ဳပ္တည္းလ်က္။ He could no longer hold back his tears. ❍ She tends to keep her real feelings back. ၂။ ျပန္ (ထား၊ ေပး၊ ေရာက္၊ သြား စသည္)။ Put the book back on the shelf. ❍ Please give me my ball back. ❍ The manager will be back (ie will return) on Monday. ❍ It takes me an hour to walk there and back. ❍ We came back from our holiday on the 25th. ❍ This is the wrong road—we'll have to go back. ❍ Could you go back to the beginning of the story? ❍ He woke up briefly and then went back to sleep. ❍ The party expects to be back in power after the election. ❍ We had a break and then went back to work. ❍ We'll come back to this subject later. ၃။ (က) (အတိတ္ ကာလသို႔) ျပန္၍။ The village has a history going back to the Middle Ages. ❍ She left back in November. ❍ She thought back to her childhood. ❍ That was a few years back. (ခ) (ခရီး) လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ။ We should have turned left five kilometres back. (ဂ) ထြက္ခြာခဲ့ေသာ၊ ဆိုခဲ့ေသာ (ေနရာ)။ Back at home, her parents were worried. ❍ This wouldn't happen back in New York. ၄။ ျပန္ (၍)။ If he kicks me, I'll kick him back. ❍ Jane wrote him a long letter, but he never wrote back. ❍ She smiled at him, and he smiled back. ❍ Could you phone back later, please? ၅။ ျပန္၍ေရာက္လ်က္၊ ေခတ္စားလ်က္။ The styles of the 1960s are back (in fashion). v ၁။ (က) ေထာက္ခံသည္။ အားေပးသည္။ Her parents backed her in her choice of career. ❍ The revolution was backed by foreign powers. (ခ) ေငြေၾကးပံ့ပိုးသည္။ They persuaded various banks to back the project. ၂။ ေနာက္ဆုတ္သည္။ back out of a parking space ❍ He backed into the car behind. ❍ If you can't drive in forwards, try backing (it) in. ❍ I couldn't back the car out of the mud. ၃။ (ေငြ) ေလာင္းသည္။ I backed four horses but won nothing. ❍ Did anyone back the winner? ❍ The favourite was heavily backed (ie Much money was bet on its winning the race). ၄။ ~ sth (with sth) (usu passive) ေနာက္ေက်ာတြင္ခံထားသည္။ The photograph was backed with cardboard. ၅။ (ဂီတ) အတီးျဖင့္ တြဲဖက္ပံ့ပိုးေပးသည္။ a singer backed by a full orchestra. ❏ at the back of one's mind [ IDM ] ေခါင္းထဲတြင္ ရိွေသာ္လည္း ဂ႐ုမထားမိေသာ။ At the back of his mind was the vague idea that he had met her before. ❏ back and forth [ IDM ] သြားလိုက္ျပန္လိုက္။ တံု႔ ျပန္လူးလာ။ ေခါက္တံု႔ေခါက္ျပန္။ ferries sailing back and forth between the island and the mainland. ❏ back away (from sb/ sth) [ PHRV ] ေနာက္ဆုတ္သည္။ The child backed away from the big dog. ❍ ( fig ) The government said that they would not back away from (ie be afraid to take) tough measures. ❏ back bench n ( usu pl ) ( Brit ) ရာထူးႀကီးႀကီးမရိွေသာ ပါလီမန္အမတ္။ He resigned as Home Secretary and returned to the back benches. ❍ back-bench MPs/ support/ critics. back-bencher n ❏ back-breaking adj အားႏွင့္ခြန္ႏွင့္လုပ္ရေသာ။ back-breaking work. ❏ back-door adj [ဥ] ေနာက္ေဖးေပါက္။ adopt a back-door approach. ❏ back down; ( US ) back off [ PHRV ] ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ စြန္႔လႊတ္သည္။ [ဥ] တပ္ေခါက္သည္။ He proved that he was right and his critics had to back down. ❏ backer n ၁။ ေငြေၾကးေထာက္ပံ့သူ။ ၂။ (ျမင္း စသည္) ထိုးသား။ ❏ backing n ၁။ အေထာက္အပံ့။ Without financial backing the project cannot succeed. ❍ You have my backing in whatever decision you take. ၂။ [U] ေနာက္ခံ။ cloth/ rubber/ cardboard backing. ၃။ [U, C usu sing ] (esp in pop music) ေနာက္ခံအဆိုအတီး။ vocal/ instrumental backing ❍ a backing group. ❏ back sb into a corner [ IDM ] ေခ်ာင္ပိတ္ဖမ္းသည္။ ❏ backless adj ေက်ာသားေပၚ (အက်ႌ)။ ❏ back number (also back issue) n သတင္းစာ၊ မဂၢဇင္း အေဟာင္း။ ❏ the back of beyond [ IDM ] ေဝးလံေခါင္ဖ်ား။ They live somewhere at the back of beyond. ❏ (in) back of sth [ IDM ] ( US infml ) ေက်ာဘက္ (ရိွ)။ ေနာက္ဘက္ (ရိွ)။ the houses (in) back of the church. ❏ back off [ PHRV ] (ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈ စသည္) ေတာ္သည္၊ ရပ္သည္။ I've had enough criticism from you—back off, will you? ❏ back onto sth [ PHRV ] ေက်ာေပးထားသည္။ Our house backs onto the river. ❏ back out (of sth) [ PHRV ] (ကတိ၊ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္) ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ It's too late to back out (of the deal) now. ❏ back-pedal v ( -ll- ; US -l- ) ၁။ ~ (on sth) ေထြးၿပီး တံေတြးကိုျပန္မ်ဳိသည္။ The government are back-pedalling on their election promises. ၂။ စက္ဘီးကိုေနာက္ျပန္နင္း သည္။ back talk n [U] ( US ) = BACKCHAT ❏ back room n လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ေဆြးေႏြးခန္း။ back-room staff/support/operations. ❏ back-room boys n [pl] ( infml esp Brit ) ကန္႔လန္႔ကာ ေနာက္ကပညာရွင္။ ❏ back seat n (ယာဥ္) ေနာက္ခံု။ ေနာက္ခန္း။ ❏ a back-seat driver [ IDM ] ( derog ) ယာဥ္ေမာင္း နားကပ္၍ဆရာလုပ္ေနသူ။ ❏ back to back [ IDM ] ၁။ ေက်ာခ်င္းကပ္။ Stand back to back and let's see which of you is taller. ၂။ ဆက္တိုက္။ win three tournaments back to back ❍ back-to-back victories. ❏ back-to-back n ( Brit ) ေနာက္ေက်ာနံရံတစ္ခုတည္းရိွေသာ ေက်ာခ်င္းကပ္အိမ္တန္း။ streets of back-to-backs ❍ back-to-back housing. ❏ back to front [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ( US backwards) ေရွ႕ေနာက္ ေျပာင္းျပန္။ Your sweater is on back to front. ❏ back up [ PHRV ] (ယာဥ္) ေနာက္ဆုတ္သည္။ You can back up another two metres or so. ❏ back sb/ sth up [ PHRV ] ေထာက္ခံသည္။ His version of events is backed up by all the available evidence. ❍ If they don't believe you, I'll back you up. ❏ back sth up [ PHRV ] ( computing ) မိတၱဴပြားထားသည္။ ❏ back the wrong horse [ IDM ] ႐ံႈးသည့္ဘက္ကို အားေပး ေထာက္ခံမိသည္။ ❏ be glad, etc to see the back of sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္သက္ျပန္ေတြ႕ရန္ အေၾကာင္းမရိွေတာ့၍ ဝမ္းသာသည္။ I've never liked my boss—when he retires I'll be glad to see the back of him. ❏ behind sb's back [ IDM ] ေနာက္ကြယ္၌။ ကြယ္ရာ၌။ They say nasty things about him behind his back. Compare TO SB'S FACE ❏ be on sb's back [ IDM ] ဖိခိုင္းသည္။ ခြ၍ခိုင္းသည္။ ေမာင္းသည္။ I have to finish this today—the boss is on my back about it. ❏ break one's back (to do sth) [ IDM ] ခါးက်ဳိးေအာင္ အလုပ္လုပ္သည္။ ❏ break the back of sth [ IDM ] (အလုပ္တစ္ခု၏) အခက္ခဲဆံုးအပိုင္းကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ၿပီးစီးၿပီ။ အေရးႀကီးတာေတာ့ ၿပီးသြားၿပီ။ The essay's not finished yet but at least I've broken the back of it. ❏ by/ through the back door [ IDM ] [ဥ] ေနာက္ေဖးေပါက္ မွ။ He used his influential friends to help him get into the civil service by the back door. ❏ get/ put sb's back up [ IDM ] စိတ္ဆိုးေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ His rude manner put my back up. ❏ get off sb's back [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေႏွာင့္ယွက္ျခင္း၊ ေဝဖန္ျခင္းကို ရပ္သည္။ Get off my back and let me do things my way! ❏ have one's back to the wall [ IDM ] က်ဥ္းထဲက်ပ္ထဲ ေရာက္သည္။ ေဘးက်ပ္နံက်ပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ on the back burner [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခတၱ ေဘးဖယ္ထား ေသာ (ကိစၥ စသည္)။ ❏ on one's back [ IDM ] ေရာဂါေဝဒနာေၾကာင့္ အိပ္ရာထဲ ပက္လက္ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ ❏ put one's back into sth [ IDM ] အားႀကိဳးမာန္တက္ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ take a back seat [ IDM ] အေရးမပါေသာေနရာတြင္ ေနရ သည္။ ေနာက္တန္းေရာက္သည္။ She took a back seat in the discussion. ❍ He was working so hard that his family life had to take a back seat. ❏ turn one's back [ IDM ] ေက်ာေပးသည္။ He turned his backs and walked away. ❏ turn one's back on sb/ sth [ IDM ] ေက်ာခိုင္းသည္။ လ်စ္လ်ဴ႐ႈသည္။ He turned his back on his family when he became famous.

Examples

1. Don’t look back
2. but there’s a man following us.
3. He asked us to move back a few yards.
4. [lean/sit/lie back] : She leant back in her chair.
5. I’m going to sit back and read the paper for a while.
6. Get back – he’s got a gun!
7. Everybody stand back while I light the fire.
8. Peel this label back to see if you have won a prize.
9. The band started playing as the curtain slowly went back.
10. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail.
11. I’m never going back home.
12. Put those CDs back where you found them.
13. We’re hoping things will be back to normal again soon.
14. I couldn’t get back to sleep.
15. Can we go back to what we were talking about earlier?
16. Jane phoned
17. and I said you’d phone her back later.
18. ‘Have you any idea where we are?’ ‘No’
19. Dan shouted back.
20. He punched me
21. so I punched him back.
22. [look/stare/smile etc back] : Geoff was staring back at me in disbelief.
23. Back in the ’70s
24. disco music was very popular.
25. She had a minor operation a few years back.
26. Things were different back then.
27. Think back: don’t you remember anything?
28. [set/put the clock back] : Don’t forget to set the clocks back an hour tonight.
29. Back at the hospital
30. the baby had just been born.
31. I have no idea what’s going on back home.
32. Back in Spain
33. we used to spend summer in the mountains.
34. You should have got off three stops back.
35. Go back a couple of pages.