different between backer vs unbacked
backer
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæk?(?)/
- Rhymes: -æk?(r)
Etymology 1
back +? -er
Noun
backer (plural backers)
- One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
backer
- (phonetics) comparative form of back: more back
- 2005, Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller, Phonetics for Communication Disorders, p. 174:
- /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
- 2005, Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller, Phonetics for Communication Disorders, p. 174:
Anagrams
- reback
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unbacked
English
Etymology
un- +? backed
Adjective
unbacked (comparative more unbacked, superlative most unbacked)
- (not comparable) Having no back.
- Not supported or backed up (by someone or something).
- Synonym: unsupported
- 1609, Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy, London: W. Iaggard, Canto 14, stanza 103, p. 381,[2]
- The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand
- Vnbackt by Troy, left of her Damsels all,
- The battery of a thousand swords she bides,
- Till her yron plates are hew’d off from her sides.
- 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, New York: Perigee, Chapter 2, p. 35,[3]
- The simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph’s new authority, brought light and happiness.
- 1962, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, New York: Bantam, 1979, “Free Women: 2,” p. 306,[4]
- This was an intellectual decision, unbacked by moral energy.
- Having no (or few) backers.
- (obsolete, not comparable) Of an animal: never having been ridden or not accustomed to being ridden; not (currently) being ridden.
- Synonym: unbroken
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,[5]
- […] like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears,
- Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
- As they smelt music:
- 1646, John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 71,[6]
- […] a well wayed horse will safely convay thee to thy journeys end, when an unbackt Filly may by chance give thee a fall:
- 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London: for the author, Chapter 17, p. 140,[7]
- […] whoever has seen a fine arabian war-horse, unback’d and at liberty, and in a wanton trot, cannot but remember what a large waving line his rising, and at the same time pressing forward, cuts through the air;
- 1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 237,[8]
- […] having visited his charger which was to be led unbacked to the field, he mounted a black palfrey;
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney” in Mine Own People, New York: Manhattan Press, p. 176,[9]
- Shakbolt must have had apoplexy at the thought of his ramping war-horses answering to that description. He used to buy unbacked devils, and tame them by starvation.
- (photography, holography) (of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.
See also
- unback
- unbackable
References
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