backbone English

Meaning backbone meaning

What does backbone mean?

Definitions in simple English

backbone Noun

— The backbone is the bones in a person's or animal's back.

— or If you have backbone, you do not back down easily. You stand up for yourself. If you had any backbone you wouldn't let people tell you what to do all the time.

— The backbone of something is what holds it together or makes it strong. Customer service is the backbone of our business.

backbone

— noun (= guts) fortitude and determination he didn't have the guts to try it

— noun (= anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin) a central cohesive source of support and stability faith is his anchor the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money he is the linchpin of this firm

— noun the part of a network that connects other networks together the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic

— noun (= spine) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved the title and author were printed on the spine of the book

— noun (= back) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord the fall broke his back

Synonyms backbone synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as backbone?

backbone English » English

spine

spinal column

back

vertebral column

mainstay

spirit

rachis

guts

chine

grit

courage

vertebrae

skeleton

sand

ridge

pillar

nucleus

moxie

main chain

lynchpin

linchpin

keystone

gumption

fortitude

dorsum

bone

anchor

willpower

will

whip

vertebral columm

vertebra

valour

valor

trunk

strength of character

spirit of defiance

spinal cord

soul

slab

shaft

self-respect

self-confidence

saddle

sacrum

resolve

rear

quill

principal crest

pivot

Topics backbone topics

What do people use backbone to talk about?

Person Body

Bone, joint

• What words refer to specific bones?
  skull jawbone shoulder blade collarbone clavicle backbone rib hip tibia tailbone carpal carpus cranium femur fibula humerus mandible mandibular maxillary metacarpus metacarpal metatarsus metatarsal parietal bone pelvis pelvic radius shinbone spine sternum tarsus ulna vertebra vertebral

Examples backbone examples

How do I use backbone in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He is an American to the backbone.

Movie subtitles

How is your backbone?

Backbone.

Admirable display of backbone there, bugalugs.

Come on, men, put some backbone into it.

Even a mouse has enough backbone to fight sometime.

The backbone of the country.

What's his backbone made of?

Young people today have no backbone.

You see, the enlisted man is the backbone of the Army.

We'll need a lot of backbone on the road.

One of them looked down, and among the empty beer cans.. and dead barracuda, she saw the long backbone of the great fish.. that was now just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.

The people who serve are the real backbone, the people who serve and work in order that you might pay that is, play.

Or I'll have a look at your backbone.

Everybody thought they had backbone, so until now, the ronin avoided their gate.

Why don't you have backbone enough to do something about this place Hopps?

But since the Wham account is the backbone of this agency I kind of felt that he kind of felt that if I kind of told you, you'd know that he knew that you knew, or something.

Straighter than Hornblower's backbone.

What do you think? Young people today have no backbone. Where is their spirit?

It must cover almost the entire backbone.

Why didn't you soak up a little backbone so you could stand up and fight?

Backbone. Wit.

But you're John Forbes, average American, Backbone of the country.

I don't want to be an average American, backbone Of the country.

I want somebody else to be the backbone and hold me up.

It is to the small stockholders, the backbone of American industry. that this story is dedicated.

The backbone's broken, my boy.

All I understand is that you don't have the backbone to stand up and fight and protect the ones you love.

Shinbone, kneebone, backbone, all yours, Dad.

The media are the backbone of our society.

It's nice to have a girl with a backbone.

My mother was the backbone of the family.

But others retained the larval forms throughout the life cycle and became free-swimming adults with something like a backbone.

The backbone of night.

News and current affairs

This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.

Klaus sees political parties as the backbone of any democratic system and sees little place for civil society in politics.

Equality and social cohesion form the backbone of liberty, justice, and security for European cities.

And the US dollar reserve-currency system - the backbone of the current global financial system - is fraying.

He said agriculture was the backbone of our nation.

Public space networks of greenways, parks, plazas, exclusively pedestrian avenues, and streets could be the backbone of the new Third World city.

Like termites, India's Hindu fascists have weakened the foundations of our constitution, parliament, and the courts - the backbone of every democracy.

Although the resulting outflow of gold caused monetary debasement in the Roman Empire, Indo-Roman trade remained the backbone of the global economy.

Now with Medvedev showing what appears to be a backbone, the presidential election campaign is officially on the way.

The backbone of tomorrow's societies, after all, will be built not by robots or digital platforms, but by their citizens.

These threats make it certain that lies are printed and broadcast - lies that are the backbone of Kuchma's regime.

Its overall aim was to make the backbone of Europe's heavy-engineering sector more competitive internationally.

But they are the backbone of our country.

It should begin by strengthening the flagging institutions that have served as the backbone of the liberal international order.

The World Food Program, a backbone of the refugee system, has met only two-thirds of its 2015 funding needs, compelling it to slash support to hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

Part of the Saudi plan today is to use Pakistanis as the backbone for a new Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) joint military force.

Nonetheless, the Palestinian public is pleased for now with a leadership that has found the backbone to stand up to pressure from Israel and the US.

Indeed, the power struggle that will ensue in the post-Arafat era will ultimately center on Al Fatah, the backbone of the PLO.

But there is one promising development: the European Union, in an uncharacteristic show of backbone, has issued written guidelines prohibiting cooperation with Israeli companies operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

And what about the Alawites (the backbone of Assad's regime), who could face a terrible destiny, regardless of whether the country splits up?

Decent would-be Palestinian businessmen (the potential backbone of a middle class) are destroyed.

Long the backbone of the Palestinian national movement, Fatah has been the dominant faction in the PLO.