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backboard
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball; "he banked the shot off the backboard" [syn: basketball backboard ] a board used to support the back of someone or something
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backboard may refer to: Long spine board , a medical device used for the immobilization and transportation of patients with suspected spinal injuries (aka backboard) Backboard (basketball) , equipment used in basketball Backboard (tennis) , wall located ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It looks lovely right up until it ricochets off the backboard .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context basketball English) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached. 2 (context tennis English) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backboard \Back"board`\, n. [2d back, n. + board.] A board which supports the back when one is sitting; specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. A thin stuff used for the backs ...
Usage examples of backboard.
Between two of the huts, mounted on a pole, was a warped backboard with a netless hoop, and some young men were shooting baskets.
Anna finished strapping Corinne to the backboard and immobilizing her head and neck between orange foam cubes designed for the purpose.
Anna nodded noncommittally and took up her own twig, stripped it and began tracing patterns on a small slate of earth cleared when the backboard was dragged across it.
There was a backboard mounted over the garage door and a swing set was just visible in back.
A basketball backboard was still planted in concrete on a wide asphalt apron set aside for guest parking.
The ambulance came less than five minutes later, with shrieking sirens, and the paramedics were quick to put her on a backboard and give her oxygen as they slid the board into the ambulance.
Park Service: oxygen bottle, backboard, first-aid kit, and white helium-filled balloons.
Anna performed rescue breathing while the backboard was moved into place.
A spin shot off the glass from under the backboard goes in because of the conservation of angular momentum.
Then I saw Tom, still on the backboard, being transferred onto a gurney and wheeled away.
To his surprise, the chair was very comfortable, though the unyielding backboard made him sit up very straight.
Left him to the dust and the dingoes while she traveled to the homestead for a backboard and a stretcher?
The room itself had the look of a gymnasium, but Sin saw no court lines painted on the parquet floor, nor any basketball backboards hanging on the walls.
He was interested in the future of the playground equipment: the cracked-clay volleyball court, the field-hockey field, and the basketball backboards and hoops — the nets were long since rotted away.
He was interested in the future of the playground equipment: the cracked-clay volleyball court, the field-hockey field, and the basketball backboards and hoops—the nets were long since rotted away.