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Definition of Backed

1. Adjective. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.

2. Adjective. Used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light.

Definition of Backed

1. a. Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

Definition of Backed

1. Verb. (past of back) ¹

2. Adjective. (1811) Dead; put on one's back. ¹

3. Adjective. Having the specified backing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backed

1. back [v] - See also: back

Medical Definition of Backed

1. Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump-backed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backed

backdoor backdoored backdooring backdoors backdown backdowns backdraft backdrafts backdraught backdraughts

backdrop backdropped backdropping backdrops backdropt backed (current term) backed up backend backends backer

backers backest backet backets backfall backfalls backfield backfields backfile backfile conversion

Literary usage of Backed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"THE Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Parus rufescens) is a boreal species of ... The range of the Chestnut-backed Chickadee is nearly two thousand miles long ..."

2. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"THE LOW-backed CAR WHEN first I met sweet Peggy, 'Twas on a market day, A low-backed car she drove, and sat Upon a truss of hay. ..."

3. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1879)
"GREEN-backed GALLINULE (Porphyrio ... In my last year's notes, I recorded the first-known occurrence of the Green-backed Porphyrio in Norfolk, a bird killed ..."

4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The little dark flies of this family have no popular name, unless we adopt that of Comstock, "the hump-backed flies," which is characteristic enough. ..."

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