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00027167-n:
a point or extent in space
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01729819-a:
(used especially of persons) of the immediate past
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00076193-r:
moving from one place to another and back again
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referring back to itself
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(military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route
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00292599-n:
taking a short walk out and back
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00308779-n:
a trip to some place and back again
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a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
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(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
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a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target
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to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
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01499137-v:
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
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01506157-v:
cause to move back by force or influence
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01903935-v:
flow back or recede
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01994846-v:
move back
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01997020-v:
march back along the same way
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02008615-a:
(especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back
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(especially of incident sound or light) not turned back by physical reflection
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02069396-v:
pour or rush back
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admit back into the country
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send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees
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an artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbit
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a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back
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an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border
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a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
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03965907-n:
any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
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condenser such that vapor over a boiling liquid is condensed and flows back into the vessel to prevent its contents from boiling dry
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a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth
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any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer
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a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta; prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart
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a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery; prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart
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a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons; prevents blood from flowing back into the heart
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valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine; prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine
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a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route)
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an electronic signal that has been reflected back to the radar antenna; contains information about the location and distance of the reflecting object
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a movement back from an impact
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an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
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the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
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07870894-n:
diced lobster mixed with Mornay sauce placed back in the shell and sprinkled with grated cheese and browned
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a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River
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a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
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(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
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United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)
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11037495-n:
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
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United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939)
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warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth
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a radio wave that is reflected back to earth by the ionosphere or a communications satellite; permits transmission around the curve of the earth's surface
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the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
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the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again
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the circulation of nitrogen; nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil
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a skin problem marked by the development (on the eyelids and neck and back) of irregular yellow nodules; sometimes attributable to disturbances of cholesterol metabolism
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the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point
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