Crossword clues for backbone
backbone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backbone \Back"bone"\ (b[a^]k"b[=o]n`), n. [2d back, n. + bone.]
The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
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Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country.
--Darwin.We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
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Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
Shelley's thought never had any backbone.
--Shairp.To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. ``Staunch to the backbone.''
--Lord Lytton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals. 2 any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure 3 courage, fortitude, or strength
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: anchor, mainstay, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin]
fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption]
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, back, rachis]
the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
Wikipedia
Backbone is the Vertebral column of a vertebrate organism.
Backbone , is a 1975 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Vlatko Gilić. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.
Backbone is an album by the American rock band Backbone, a trio led by former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. Their only album, it was released by Grateful Dead Records on January 13, 1998. It contains ten original songs, plus a version of the Grateful Dead tune "New Speedway Boogie".
In addition to Kreutzmann, the band Backbone included guitarist Rick Barnett and bassist Edd Cook. Their music was heavily influenced by blues and R&B, and included substantial amounts of improvisational jamming.
Backbone is the second album by jazz saxophonist Boney James, released in 1994.
Backbone is a unique and difficult solitaire game using two decks of playing cards. The object of this game is to move all cards to the Foundations.
Backbone is a 1923 American silent drama film produced by George Arliss (through his Distinctive Pictures company), released by Goldwyn Pictures and directed by Edward Sloman. Broadway actor Alfred Lunt stars in his film debut. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film. The film has a locale in a New England lumber camp with the exception of an episode taking place in France.
Backbone is a Canadian business magazine and companion website that examine the role of technology and innovation within the context of Canadian business and economy. It keeps readers up to date on new ideas, trends and innovations in the technology world, and delivers information that related to the day-to-day operation of Canadian companies of all sizes.
In addition to its core focus on practical business insights, Backbone delivers stories on the role of digital media and technology on lifestyle and culture.
Backbone is published by Publimedia Communications Inc. The print magazine was distributed six times a year. It is based in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Its stated average readership was 306,000. The first print issue of the magazine was released in January 2001. For many years during the print magazine's run, it was the only magazine focused on Canadian business and technology.
On 13 March 2015 the magazine's publisher and founder, Steve Dietrich, announced the print publication would cease, but that the website would continue. The last print issue was published in March 2015. A decline in advertising revenue was stated by Dietrich as the prime reason.
Backbone's website continues to publish news, event listings, press releases, and blog posts.
Backbone is the debut album by British pop punk band Roam.
Backbone is the fifth studio album from Australian pop singer Anthony Callea. The album is produced by James Roche of Bachelor Girl and is due for release on 16 September 2016. It reunites Callea with Sony Music with whom he signed in 2004 and released two studio albums and two multi-platinum number 1 selling singles. Callea said, “I’m so fortunate that Denis Handlin and Sony Music have embraced my idea of Backbone and allowed me to make this exciting album with them."
Upon announcement of the album, Callea said “With Backbone, we have explored songs that we all know and love – and we’ve been able to get to the core of these songs, their lyrics and melody, bringing them to the surface with organic and creative musical instrumentation and vocal delivery." adding, “I wrote the title track when I was in Los Angeles, and it sums up the essence of this album."
Usage examples of "backbone".
Alea saw that the reddish-brown creature on his wrist was no bird, but a sort of pterodactyl, though its head did look rather like that of a horse and its neck and backbone sprouted a row of triangular plates that stretched down its tail to an arrowpoint on the end.
The abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty and encouragement of the Fenian Raids by the American people had put the Canadians on their mettle and stiffened their backbone, so that neither retaliatory threats or honeyed allurements had any effect in changing their minds from carving out their own destiny under the broad folds of the Union Jack.
When we ascend to vertebrates, those animals having a backbone, the amount of the nervous substance is greater, the organic functions are more complex, and the actions begin to display intelligence.
There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which terminated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike forepart.
The Herero boy, long tormented by missionaries into a fear of Christian sins, jackal-ghosts, potent European strand-wolves, pursuing him, seeking to feed on his soul, the precious worm that lived along his backbone, now tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words, give them away, savage, paralyzed, to this scholarly white who seemed so in love with language.
As I see it, the Russians are starting to break the backbone of Hitlerism, but at terrible cost.
University of Michigan, this machine was part of the interuniversity very high speed Backbone Network Service, or vbns network, which linked Michigan to several other research-oriented universities.
With my free hand, I telephoned the butcher and asked if he would saw off the part of the shoulder blade near the neck, keeping the backbone and first ribs attached, and could I get it salted.
Here the bicycles were left, and the group headed westward on foot around the end of the ridgelike hill which formed the backbone of the island and on which all their houses were built.
Hay residence, at the end of the paved road and somewhat more than two miles from the school Here the bicycles were left, and the group headed westward on foot around the end of the ridgelike hill which formed the backbone of the island and on which all their houses were built.
From the apex of the tetrahedron rose the king post, a specially fabricated compound member exactly analogous to the backbone of a vertebrate animal.
Sure, almost any old union would boost wages and straighten out some backbones here, but I know that even the most energetic and democratic unions bear careful watching by their members.
Below Apollonia lay the river Aous, one of the major streams which came down from the backbone itself.
The queen looped her chain of coins around the wrist of one of them and towed him playfully off across the dim and crowded maze of tables, beaded curtains, and archways that formed the backbone of the Goblet.
Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton, arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell.