back
/bæk/ adverbTranslation
RETURNING › where someone or something was before
geçmişte
I'll be back in Sydney on the 20th. When do you go back to college? I put it back in the cupboard.1593BEHIND › in a direction behind you
geriye doğru
Anna stepped back. Flint leaned back in his chair.1730REPLY › as a reply or reaction to something
cevap, karşılık olarak
UK to ring back/ US to call back I signalled to her and she waved back.1164STATE › to the state something or someone was in before
geri, eski haline doğru
Hopefully things will get back to normal again now. I'm sure we can put it back together again (= repair it). Try to go back to sleep.1579EARLIER › at or to an earlier time
öncelere, geçmişe ya da geçmişte, öncesinde
We first met back in 1973. Looking back, I think we did the right thing.1579AWAY FROM › in a direction away from something
uzağa, öteye, geriye doğru
He pulled back the curtain. The house was a short distance back from the road.1730 back and forth ( also UK backwards and forwards) › in one direction, then the opposite way, then in the original direction again many times
ileri geri, git gel, sürekli aynı yönde ve geri
He has to travel back and forth between London and Paris every week.1730(Definition of back adverb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
© Cambridge University Press)
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