Crossword clues for backlog
backlog
- What's not done yet
- Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- An accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with
- Large log at the back of a hearth fire
- In-basket stack
- Inventory
- Accumulation of uncompleted work
- Endorse record that hasn't had the attention it should
- Arrears of work
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backlog \Back"log`\ (b[a^]k"l[o^]g`; 115), n. [Back, a. + log.]
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A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. Contrasted to forestick. [U.S.]
There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes.
--S. G. Goodrich. An accumulation (of tasks or of materials) that were not performed or processed at the normal time and require attention; as, unexpected demand led to a large backlog of unfilled orders; politically motivated delays led to a large backlog of unconfirmed judicial appointments.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work 2 A reserve source or supply vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
WordNet
n. an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
large log at the back of a hearth fire [syn: log]
something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose [syn: reserve, stockpile]
v. accumulate and create a backlog
Wikipedia
Backlog is a joint compilation album by electronica musicians Leftfield and Djum Djum, released in 1992. It contained mixes of Leftfield's first two releases " Not Forgotten" and " More Than I Know" from between 1990 and 1991 and two mixes by Neil Barnes of the Djum Djum track "Difference". It was released on CD in December 1992 on the Outer Rhythm label. Djum Djum is the stage name of rapper Neil Cole.
Backlog generally refers to an accumulation over time of work waiting to be done or orders to be fulfilled.
Backlog may also refer to:
- The product backlog, a list of requirements that is maintained for a product developed using the Scrum methodology
- Backlog of unexamined patent applications
- Backlog (album), a compilation by Electronica
- An argument to Berkeley sockets "listen" function
Usage examples of "backlog".
The sounds were primal and complex, a perfect chaos of unspent, unspoken, undirected emotions, most of which were a backlog that only then found expression.
The backlogged Cuban analysts and cryptologists of B Group were only now putting out translations of messages intercepted weeks earlier.
All domestic scheduled flights have been re-routed to Lanseria and Germiston airports, and we are landing and despatching only international scheduled flights but the backlog has delayed departures by three hours.
Edition: 11 Language: English The Project Gutenberg Etext of Backlog Studies, by Charles D.
You want, first, a large backlog, which does not rest on the andirons.
A whole leisure day before you, a good novel in hand, and the backlog only just beginning to kindle, with uncounted hours of comfort in it, has life anything more delicious?
The birch log holds out very well while it is green, but has not substance enough for a backlog when dry.
The backlog period having passed, we are beginning to have in society people of the cultured manner, as it is called, or polished bearing, in which the polish is the most noticeable thing about the man.
But, in fact, the gentleman who sat before the backlog in his winter-house had other things to think of.
CHAPTER 7 Kirstin Adair sat on her balcony, drinking tea and attending to the backlog of calls that had accumulated during her hour with Nikko.
So another full day passed before she finally turned her attention to the backlog of calls and waiting ghosts.
We got a high rating on the inspection in July and our backlogs were down.
Karen likes 1997 people because they're never boringall these new words they havethe backlogs of gossip, of current events, and of history.
I have a precision mercury thermometer on order from the Essen Instrument Company thanks to my son, but they have a six month backlog in all of their orders, and their priority customers in Essen have first call on any emergency equipment.
The enormous backlog of similar incidents, manfully swallowed or overlooked for any number of logical reasons, swept aside every consideration except to put as much distance between himself and his invidious position, his too reasonable and conscientious guardian and the obnoxious group of people who mistook daily intimacy for license.