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backward
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adverb
(= back, rearward, rearwards)
at or to or toward the back or rear
he moved back
tripped when he stepped backward
she looked rearward out the window of the car
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adverb
in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
it's easy to get the 'i' and the 'e' backward in words like 'seize' and 'siege'
the child put her jersey on backward
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adjective
directed or facing toward the back or rear
a backward view
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adjective
(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
a backward lover
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adjective
having made less than normal progress
an economically backward country
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adjective
retarded in intellectual development
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adverb
(= back)
in or to or toward a past time
set the clocks back an hour
never look back
lovers of the past looking fondly backward
mode
Noun
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A mode is a specific way of doing something.
The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.
The machine is in warm-up mode right now.
A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains.
Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.
There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech.
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A mode is a fashion or style.
She was always dressed in the latest mode.
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A mode is a specific type or form of something.
Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.
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A mode is specific a kind scale.
The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.
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The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.
In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.
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A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood.
In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate.
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The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it.
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A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement.
Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.