Crossword clues for backboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddles into the interior of the wheel.
--W. Nicholson.A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.
--Thackeray.
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 back. 3 (context medicine first aid English) A spine board.
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
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 at a tennis court attached to a fence
A tennis backboard is a simple wall usually made from some kind of fiberboard and located at a tennis court attached to a fence. It should have a tennis net either drawn or painted at the proper height. It is designed to allow a single person to practice by hitting a tennis ball against the wall so the ball is returned, much like a second player would return it.
A backboard is a piece of basketball equipment. It is a raised vertical board with a basket attached. It is made of a flat, rigid piece of material, often Plexiglas or tempered glass which also has the properties of safety glass when accidentally shattered. It is usually rectangular as used in NBA, NCAA and international basketball. In recreational environments, a backboard may be oval or a fan-shape, particularly in non-professional games.
Today most professional backboards are made of a glass backboard so that it will not obstruct the audience's view, although most non-professional backboards are made from something that may obstruct the audience's view, such as goals at parks or on streets.
A basketball hoop is mounted to a basketball backboard via a flexible connection between the backboard and the connection supporting the hoop. The shock of a basket or a dunk is absorbed by the connecting part, so that the rim goes back to a horizontal position once again.
The top of the hoop is above the ground. Regulation backboards are wide by tall. All basketball rims (hoops) are in diameter. The inner rectangle on the backboard is wide by tall.
The first glass backboard was used by the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team at the Men's Gymnasium at Indiana University. After the first few games at their new facility in 1917, spectators complained that they couldn't see the game because of opaque wooden backboards. As a result the Nurre Mirror Plate Company in Bloomington was employed to create new backboards that contained plate glass so that fans could see games without an obstructed view. It was the first facility in the country to use glass backboards.
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.