Crossword clues for backwards
backwards
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.]
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
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On the back, or with the back downward.
Thou wilt fall backward.
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Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
Some reigns backward.
--Locke. By way of reflection; reflexively.
--Sir J. Davies.-
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
The work went backward.
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In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
We might have . . . beat them backward home.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from backward with adverbial genitive. Figurative phrase bend over backwards is recorded from 1901.
Wiktionary
a. 1 oriented toward the back. 2 reversed. 3 (context derogatory English) behind current trends or technology. 4 clumsy, inept, or inefficient. adv. 1 Toward the back. 2 In the opposite direction to usual. 3 In a manner such that the back precedes the front.
WordNet
adv. 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" [syn: back, backward, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forward]
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" [syn: backward]
Wikipedia
Backwards is the fourth Red Dwarf novel. It is set on the fictional backwards universe version of Earth.
The novel was written by Rob Grant on his own. It follows on directly from the second Grant Naylor novel, Better Than Life, ignoring Last Human (which was written by Doug Naylor). As well as continuing the general conceit from the episode Backwards, it contains minor elements from the episode Dimension Jump, and all of the plot from Gunmen of the Apocalypse.
An audiobook of Backwards was also produced, read by the author.
"Backwards" is the first episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series III, and the thirteenth in the series run. It premiered on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 November 1989. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode has the crew travel to an alternate Earth where time runs backwards.
The episode marks the first appearance of Robert Llewellyn's Kryten, Hattie Hayridge's version of Holly, the new spaceship Starbug, better production values, and a change in direction of story themes that would cement the show's cult status. The story was later reformulated as a novel by the same name. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.
Backward or Backwards is a relative direction.
Backwards may also refer to:
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"Backwards" (Red Dwarf episode), episode of TV sitcom
- Backwards (novel), a novel based on the episode
- Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, 1984 American TV programme
- "Backwards" (Rascal Flatts song), country music song
- "Backwards", a song by Apartment 26 from the Mission: Impossible II Soundtrack
- Backmasking, a Satan Panic promoted by a number of Evangelists that involved reversing music to hear a hidden Satanic message
Usage examples of "backwards".
The dance ended in a vigorous whirling during which the partners only touched with their hands and the tips of their feet and then, leaning far over backwards, turned in a bacchantic circle.
I wish the Bluenoses would find as good an excuse in their rumps for running backwards as he has.
I went up the slope backwards till I hit the rim, and then I turned and ducked into the bresh and run.
By the Bullnose Morris was a nervous, pacing, slyly smoking policeman, a cigarette cupped between his fingers, the glowing tip facing backwards, as though this simple precaution might make his illicit action the less obvious.
Slowly, laboriously, she tipped the chiffonnier backwards and forwards--once, twice, thrice--satisfied, yet strangely troubled in her mind, for she now felt sure that the bag of which the disappearance had so surprised her was there, safely locked away by its owner.
The same afternoon I descried the venerable warrior approaching the house, with a slow, stately gait, ear-rings in ears, and spear in hand, with this highly ornamental pair of shoes suspended from his neck by a strip of bark, and swinging backwards and forwards on his capacious chest.
He grabbed Digits by the front of his shirt and pushed him hard backwards.
Danaet, the factor would lecture her about dallying with a dockhand until the waves ran backwards.
There were Etruscan counterparts to the Latin letters C, E, F, K, and L, but they all faced backwards on almost every known Etruscan writing .
Marianna moves a few steps backwards, but Fila must have relit the candle because the light returns flickering in the doorway.
His eyes opened wide with astonishment, he gave Sharpe a puzzled, almost reproachful look, then slowly toppled backwards into one of the foetid puddles.
A-cup nothing and look at himself in the mirror sideways, frontways, backwards, then tear it off and leave the stretched, dead little animal print on the bed for me to find.
I pointed my gun and fired back twice, and the Gater toppled backwards.
He rose in agony, tearing himself free of her hands, bent and stood her up backwards to him, supporting her under the breasts, his elbows keeping her arms elevated.
She knows what reality is and she hates it, and she sucks it into herself and spews it out backwards.