Not front or forward

noun

1. The part of a lower animal (such as a quadruped) corresponding to the human back

   "riding on the back of an elephant"

2. Spinal column

   "She had surgery on her back."

3. Spine

   "The title is on the book's back."

4. The side or surface opposite the front or face

   "I only saw him from the back."

5. Something at or on the back for support

   "back of a chair"

6. A place away from the front

   "sat in back"

7. A position in some games (such as football or soccer) behind the front line of players
8. A swimming race in which swimmers use the backstroke

   "She placed first in the 100-meter back."

9. the rear part of the human body especially from the neck to the end of the spine
10. the body considered as the wearer of clothes
11. capacity for labor, effort, or endurance

adverb

1. To, toward, or at the rear

   "asked the crowd to move back"

2. In or into the past backward in time

   "looking back on her youth"

3. To or at an angle off the vertical

   "leaned back on his chair"

4. In an inferior or secondary position
5. To, toward, or in a place from which a person or thing came

   "She left home and never went back."

6. To or toward a former state

   "went back to private life"

7. In return or reply

   "forgot to write back"

adjective

1. Being at or in the back

   "back door"

2. Distant from a central or main area

   "back roads"

3. Articulated at or toward the back of the oral passage formed deep within the mouth

   "back vowels"

4. Having returned or been returned
5. Being in arrears overdue

   "is owed several months in back pay"

6. Moving or operating backward} {sx

   "back action with oars"

7. Not current

   "back issues of a magazine"

8. Constituting the final 9 holes of an 18-hole course

verb

1. To support by material or moral assistance

   "backing a candidate for governor"

2. Substantiate
3. To assume financial responsibility for

   "back a new company"

4. To provide musical accompaniment for
5. To cause to go back see back or in reverse

   "back the car into the garage"

6. To articulate (a speech sound) with the tongue farther back to form deeper within the mouth
7. To furnish with a rear part to furnish with a back see back

   "back a skirt with stiff material"

8. To be at the rear part of to be at the back see back of

   "a row of garages back the building"

9. To move backward

   "backed into a parking space"

10. To shift counterclockwise compare veer
11. To have the rear part facing in the direction of something

    "The house backs onto a golf course."

geographical name

1. River 605 miles (974 kilometers) long in Nunavut, Canada, rising along the border with the Northwest Territories and flowing east-northeast into the Arctic Ocean

noun

1. Discussion, give-and-take

adverb

1. Backward and forward

noun

1. Back button

verb

1. To move away (as from a stand on an issue or from a commitment)

noun

1. Canadian bacon