backstep
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A regression.
noun
An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
noun
The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
noun
A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
Example Sentences
- "There are also times when a player needs to enlist the aid of the backstep while on the baseline."
- "The attacker steps across his body and places his right foot on the mat. As he does this, the attacker uses his left hand to pull on his opponent's right sleeve and uses his left hand to start his backstep."
- "Up until now Almodovar has presented us with characters who are past the edge and flying over the abyss; for better or worse they have liberated themselves from the social structures and repressions of everyday life. […] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown may feel as though it is a bit of a backstep for its director […] because it is examining the lives of the characters who have not broken very far from the everyday reality of accepted life."
- "With care it is possible to combine a median-of-three mechanism with partitioning that avoids backstep initialization."
- "Then, when I was a backstep firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off."
- "Note the mirror next to the rear warning lights that allows the driver to view the backstep area of the apparatus."