1.Backward and forward; to and fro:went back and forth in the rocking chair. 2.From side to side:paced back and forth across the room. back′-and-forth′n.& adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publi...
The little girl rocked back and forth on the swing. 小女孩在秋千上来回摇晃。 back-and-forthadj(movement: to and fro)SCSimplified Chinese来回的 TCTraditional Chinese來回的 备注: Hyphens are used when the term is an adjective. It is relaxing to sit on the beach and watch the back-and-fort...
54. back and forth to and fro 55. back to front a. in reverse b. in disorder [Old English bæc; related to Old Norse bak, Old Frisian bek, Old High German bah] back (bæk) n (Brewing) a large tub or vat, esp one used by brewers [C17: from Dutch bak tub, cistern,...
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The word 'litany' comes from the church. It originally referred to a kind of call-and-response prayer.
Sweeping back and forth across the ice rink(冰场), Zhou Ruixuan of Shenzhen Yucai High School, Guangdong Province practices a set of acrobatic(杂技般的)jumps. It's only 7 o'clock in the morning, but the 16-year-old girl has already been practising for half an hour.Zhou has practised ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A day after CC Sabathia sounded off on a Boston bunt, small ball was still causing a big back-and-forth between the New York Yankees and Red Sox.
Thesaurus Medical Financial Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia back-end (băk′ĕnd′) adj. 1.Of or relating to the final phase of a project or process:back-end charges. 2.Of or relating to the part of a software system or online service that the user does not interact with and that is...
3.To bring forth for action or discussion; raise. call upon 1.To order; require:I call upon you to tell the truth. 2.To make a demand or a series of demands on:Social institutions are now being called upon to provide assistance to the homeless. ...
according to estimates from the Tax Foundation. Although advocates note Trump’s first-term tariffs did not meaningfully raise inflation, they were far narrower in scope than what Trump is putting in place Tuesday. And the pandemic that follow skewed some of the inflationary aspects of the tariffs...