deshanksuman/cornercases_fews_wsd huggingface dataset:
Sentence:  The soldiers would [WSD]about-face[/WSD] immediately after the order was given. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To turn 180 degrees to face the opposite direction
Sentence:  When Luke heard the news, he did an abrupt [WSD]about-face[/WSD] on the policy. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A reversal in direction; reversal of attitude or opinion.
Sentence:  A politician will [WSD]about-face[/WSD] at the drop of a hat if he thinks there are votes in it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To change opinion or attitude drastically.
Sentence:  That's what it[WSD]'s all about[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To deal with, to be focused on.
Sentence:  The soldier did an [WSD]about-face[/WSD] and marched off. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An abrupt turn to face the opposite direction.
Sentence:  My daughter likes to [WSD]hang about[/WSD] with older kids after school. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  "Especially in the form" '''to hang about with''' "(someone)": to spend time or be friends with.
Sentence:  [WSD]about[/WSD] as cold;  [WSD]about[/WSD] as high 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. (First attested before 1150.<ref name=SOED/>)
Sentence:  I spun [WSD]about[/WSD] and clattered through the front room to the door . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in rotation or succession
Sentence:  Men crowded the streets and freight rigs and teams were moving [WSD]about[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
Sentence:  Dismounting , Russ looked [WSD]about[/WSD] hastily . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all around or on all sides
Sentence:  The gradient was [WSD]about[/WSD] one half of a millidegree at 4.2 * * f but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the | l point . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  `` You 're [WSD]about[/WSD] as dumb as they come , Adams . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  For the Smith-Hughes , George-Barden , and National Defense Act of 1958 , the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only [WSD]about[/WSD] $ 740 million . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  At that moment , Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was [WSD]about[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in the area or vicinity
Sentence:  Killpath peered through half closed lids at his reflection , thrust up his chin in a gesture of satisfaction and [WSD]about-faced[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  turn, usually 180 degrees
Sentence:  He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again , wound the gold wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then , eying the report as it lay before him on the desk , intoned , `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station 's activities or the [WSD]whereabouts[/WSD] of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' - he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` - failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the general location where something is
Sentence:  The ceiling stayed solid above them at [WSD]about[/WSD] eight hundred feet , and at times the sheer cliffs seemed about to close in . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Expenditures for shipbuilding are estimated at [WSD]about[/WSD] the same level as in 1960 . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  In 1802 Henry referred to `` our new carts '' as being [WSD]about[/WSD] four feet off the ground and carrying five times as much as a horse could pack . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  An underground reinforced concrete shelter can be built by a contractor for [WSD]about[/WSD] $ 1000 to $ 1500 , depending on the type of entrance . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  On the ground floor the radiation would be [WSD]about[/WSD] half what it is outside . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The car was just [WSD]about[/WSD] to us , its driver 's fat , solemn face intent on the road ahead , on business , on a family in Sante Fe - on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in the area or vicinity
Sentence:  `` Under arms day and night , watch and watch [WSD]about[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in rotation or succession
Sentence:  ( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of [WSD]about[/WSD] $ 125 , very good money in an era when top hands worked for $ 30 and found . ) 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The travel time of sound in tissue is [WSD]about[/WSD] 1500 meters per second thus it takes about 16 | msec. to traverse 25 mm. of tissue . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  It seems clear , from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was [WSD]about[/WSD] an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the **f bond becomes symmetric when the **f bond length is [WSD]about[/WSD] 2.4 to 2.5 A , but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric **f bonds . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The bond angles and distances are all within the expected limits and the volume per oxygen is [WSD]about[/WSD] normal . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  A very fine , gray solid ( [WSD]about[/WSD] 15 g ) is formed , water-washed by centrifugation , and dried at 110 ` C . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The temperature was maintained to within about **f for the period of time required to make the measurement ( usually [WSD]about[/WSD] one hour ) . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The measured powder density of the **f used here was [WSD]about[/WSD] **f , approximately one-third that of the crystal density ( **f ) . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  He dropped his earlier and delightful hamming , which is [WSD]about[/WSD] the only way to handle the old war horse called `` Charley's Aunt '' , and let himself go with as an appealing an `` Amy '' as anybody could ask . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  It has all been done in superb style , and the result is a show which deserves the support of every person [WSD]hereabouts[/WSD] who enjoys good musical theater . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in this general vicinity
Sentence:  The radial velocity varies inversely as the particle size - a 1000 - | m diameter particle near the orbit of Mars would reach the sun in [WSD]about[/WSD] 60 million years . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  They quote [WSD]about[/WSD] the same mass threshold as that of the U.S. apparatus , but a momentum threshold about 40 times greater . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  They quote about the same mass threshold as that of the U.S. apparatus , but a momentum threshold [WSD]about[/WSD] 40 times greater . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The threshold mass of [WSD]about[/WSD] * * f corresponds to a 10 - | m diameter sphere of density * * f . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  These extrapolated fluxes are [WSD]about[/WSD] an order of magnitude less than the values from the satellite data and the figures in Whipple 's table . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  For all meteorites , the average nickel content is [WSD]about[/WSD] 2.5 per cent . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  In man the normal level of iodine in the diet and the level necessary to prevent development of goitre is [WSD]about[/WSD] 100 | mg per day . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  There were tools [WSD]about[/WSD] but they were neatly kept . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in the area or vicinity
Sentence:  There are [WSD]about[/WSD] 200 different kinds of Andrena in Europe alone . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking [WSD]about[/WSD] him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all around or on all sides
Sentence:  The town was [WSD]about[/WSD] what Wilson expected : one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings , a water tower , a few warehouses , a single hotel ; all dusty and sunbaked . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The man uttered a weird cry , spun [WSD]about[/WSD] , and collapsed in the sand . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in or to a reversed position or direction
Sentence:  Liter quantities of Mallinckrodt , low sulfur , reagent grade carbon tetrachloride were saturated with * * f and * * f and illuminated for [WSD]about[/WSD] 50 hours with a 1000 watt tungsten lamp at a distance of a few inches . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  In most cases the chlorine concentration was [WSD]about[/WSD] * * f . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  `` I kicked [WSD]about[/WSD] 110 extra points in 135 tries during three years in high school '' , he said , `` and made 26 in a row at one time . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  I never did miss one in a playoff game - I kicked [WSD]about[/WSD] 20 in the five playoff games my last two years '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  If the change , at first sight , seems minor , we may recall that it took the Italian painters [WSD]about[/WSD] two hundred years to make an analogous change , and the Italian painters , by universal consent , were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Carpenter 's study showed that female common garter and ribbon snakes of Michigan mature at [WSD]about[/WSD] the age of two . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity , although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at [WSD]about[/WSD] 600 ` K . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Mars has been observed twice at [WSD]about[/WSD] 3 - cm wave length , and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  They deduced from their measurements that the radio emission from the whole disk of the moon varied during a lunation in a roughly sinusoidal fashion ; that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; and that the maximum of the radio emission came [WSD]about[/WSD] 3 - 1 2 days after Full Moon , which is again in contrast to the infrared emission , which reaches its maximum at Full Moon . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955 , when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference like radio noise on their records at [WSD]about[/WSD] 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The maximum angular diameter of any planetary disk as observed from the earth is [WSD]about[/WSD] 1 minute of arc . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was [WSD]about[/WSD] 9 ' , and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The age of the moon was [WSD]about[/WSD] 2 days . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was [WSD]about[/WSD] 18 ' .5 , and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Mr. Jack had said , `` You look [WSD]about[/WSD] fifteen years old '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  While she was thus engaged , McFeeley questioned her about her [WSD]whereabouts[/WSD] the previous day , any recollections she had of people hanging around , of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen , of strange cars cruising the neighborhood . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the general location where something is
Sentence:  When the house was [WSD]about[/WSD] half consumed , his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands , declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  When the house was about half consumed , his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands , declaring repeatedly that he did not know the [WSD]whereabouts[/WSD] of Manuel . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the general location where something is
Sentence:  Traveling all night , Clark and twelve men arrived at [WSD]about[/WSD] seven o'clock May 22 . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  It is roughly shaped like a large pear , and when properly ripened , its dark green skin covers a meaty , melon like pulp that has [WSD]about[/WSD] the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear , but oily . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Aside from this , the average portion contains some protein , an appreciable amount of vitamins and C - [WSD]about[/WSD] one-tenth of the minimum daily requirement , and about a third of the official vitamin E requirement . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Annisberg was [WSD]about[/WSD] seventy-five miles west of Birmingham , near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River , a small and dirty stream . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  After looking [WSD]about[/WSD] a bit , Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom , across the river and far removed from the white city , a considerable tract of land , and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all around or on all sides
Sentence:  The doctor stood [WSD]about[/WSD] , waiting for Alex to dress , with a show of impatience , and soon they were moving , as quietly as could be , through the still dark hallways , past the bedroom of the patronne , and so into the street . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in the area or vicinity
Sentence:  Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were [WSD]about[/WSD] his age , so naturally they ran around together . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Whatever the unhappy inmates of such camps are like today , Dostoevsky 's companions were [WSD]about[/WSD] as grim a lot as can be imagined . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Five of these done daily for [WSD]about[/WSD] a week will develop the strength for one push-up . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Lying in the grass behind the brush clump , Warren looked [WSD]about[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all around or on all sides
Sentence:  You [WSD]about[/WSD] ready '' ? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Sentence:  Scotty 's father sat sprawled in his chair , angular , alert as a cricket , looking [WSD]about[/WSD] at the huge stainless-steel appointments of the room with an expression of proprietorship . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all around or on all sides
Sentence:  The steady roll of the drums had sounded behind him as he walked between the endless ranks of the men he had commanded , and each man [WSD]about-faced[/WSD] and turned his back as the officer approached . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  turn, usually 180 degrees
Sentence:  As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day [WSD]sennight[/WSD], the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  After a sennight has passed.
Sentence:  ... primate's inclination to [WSD]backscratch[/WSD] and delouse rather than venture into the dangerous country beyond familiar tramping grounds. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To (scratch) one's or another's (back).
Sentence:  “Anyway,” She grabbed his dick through his black silk boxers, “I'll [WSD]holla back[/WSD] big man." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To make or respond to romantic or sexual overtures.
Sentence:  Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. [WSD]Piggybacking[/WSD] on that last part, the ugly business of the critique. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
Sentence:  the chalk cliffs which [WSD]back[/WSD] the beach 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
Sentence:  Mum sent me climbing clothes from Geneva after I told her I was doing it: threequarterlength galaxy-print leggings and a silver sports top. I like the top because it has a [WSD]crossback[/WSD] that makes my shoulders look strong. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
Sentence:  18 of 38 of the females have two black eyespots on the forewings. Seven of those show a tiny white centre in the black eyespots. All female specimens have completely black [WSD]backwings[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  One of the posterior pair of wings on an insect.
Sentence:  That's the right place for 'er sort—with them [WSD]waybacks[/WSD], who don't go to no school, and don't know nothin'. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An uneducated person from a remote area.
Sentence:  Most of the plans have [WSD]loanback[/WSD] facilities, which allow you to use your pension to get a loan. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.
Sentence:  Step with the left foot ending behind the right ([WSD]crossback[/WSD] position). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
Sentence:  She slipped into a seat in the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] and pulled out her casebook, notebook and Crim Law outline. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back row of a classroom.
Sentence:  There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a [WSD]backcomb[/WSD] were lying near an easy chair. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
Sentence:  I went over to the other bed and lay down. My knees were hanging over the side of the bed, providing me with a fairly decent [WSD]back stretch[/WSD]. With my eyes closed, I could hear sleep calling. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
Sentence:  When we had made the boys as confortable as possible and given them fags, of which our Padre seened to have an inexhaustable supply, they were quite cheerful, and joked about “[WSD]backsheesh[/WSD]" wounds. quote-book 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
Sentence:  We never expected to have to shred their personal lives, their greedy excesses, their nefarious, [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] business dealings for their own personal gain in front of the public that had placed them on their pedestals. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
Sentence:  Ruddey made two on a [WSD]crossback[/WSD] and Reddey was forced along for one., after which Hachah decided to punt, which he did forthwith, the ball alighting in Hart 's arms. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
Sentence:  The colours of the [WSD]backwing[/WSD] are the following: the "gubahan" motif must be gilded, the tendrils of the gubahan motife are preferably made blue or  or orange, the leaf work must be red and green. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A wing-like projection on the upper back of some a Wayang puppets.
Sentence:  Eventually we rounded more [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD] and started to see various summits. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A hairpin bend.
Sentence:  Are we having a little [WSD]Throwback Thursday[/WSD] thing here? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A social media tradition of sharing previously-used content on Thursdays.
Sentence:  Then, when I was a [WSD]backstep[/WSD] firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
Sentence:  There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in the [WSD]wayback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A very remote time or place.
Sentence:  Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in [WSD]backwood[/WSD] constituencies. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Sentence:  If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera [WSD]backshot[/WSD], there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned "revival meeting"! 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A shot taken from behind the subject.
Sentence:  The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far [WSD]aback[/WSD], in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Towards the back or rear; backwards. (First attested prior to 1150.)<ref name=SOED>(page=2)</ref>
Sentence:  Two "[WSD]brownbacks[/WSD]," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure 36. The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
Sentence:  Both Thatcher's and Major's PPSs developed the role of trying to see that those members considered loyal to the leadership won the main positions on [WSD]backbench[/WSD] party committees. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by rank-and-file members.
Sentence:  I could see clear out to the [WSD]humpbacks[/WSD] of small islands along the great lake, where small banks of fog hung. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
Sentence:  ...the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, [WSD]hairybacks[/WSD], ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A white Afrikaner.
Sentence:  The plucky [WSD]backbencher[/WSD] began his life in hockey as a player, breaking into the professional game with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Portland Rosebuds in 1916– 17, but turned amateur again the following season. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
Sentence:  The suitcases and the playpen, the Frisbees and the Wiffle Balls are all packed in the [WSD]wayback[/WSD] of the car; the snacks are on the floor of the front seat where Deje can dole them out to our hungry kids as we drive south towards Charlotte. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
Sentence:  In America today, most Wire Eye Splices are made [WSD]backhanded[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Backwards, turned around.
Sentence:  Whether referred to as bargaining, logrolling, or [WSD]backscratching[/WSD], the effect is the same: "you support me, I'll support you." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To engage in a (reciprocal) (action).
Sentence:  Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited [WSD]backstop[/WSD] would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK's Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory [WSD]backstop[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
Sentence:  Here, after supper, most of the company stretched themselves in [WSD]backwood[/WSD] style, before the fire; but Washington was shown into a bedroom. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
Sentence:  “[WSD]Holla back[/WSD], girl! Where are you?” Mara asked, feeling a flush of happiness at hearing Eliza's throaty voice. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To reply.
Sentence:  Some years ago a group of hybrids and hybrid [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD] named the Guyencourt Hybrids was introduced. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The species resulting from a crossback.
Sentence:  It would be convenient to consider [WSD]takeback[/WSD] as a step process; after an intervention the occupants immediately establish a new level of demand for that household energy service. Occupant behaviour however is more complicated than this and takes some time to adjust. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The reduction in energy savings from new technologies due to increased levels of demand.
Sentence:  "Q." Was not the "Trident" at that time [WSD]aback[/WSD] with one or more Top-sails? "A." To the best of my Knowledge she had both Top-sails [WSD]aback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. (First attested in the late 17th century.)<ref name=SOED/>
Sentence:  In some localities the bank margins of several cycles are stacked above each other, in other places they [WSD]backstep[/WSD] or prograde relative to each other. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
Sentence:  There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those [WSD]aback[/WSD], as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields [WSD]aback[/WSD] were in cultivation last year. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In the rear; a distance behind. (First attested prior to 1150.)<ref name=SOED/>
Sentence:  The [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD] come into circulation by creating a debt and involving double interest. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  Ball Bearing armature and spindle thrust, three jaw [WSD]screwback[/WSD] chuck. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A tightening screw on the back of a hand tool.
Sentence:  Animated, seemingly varied crowd movement will place a game in the early 1990s, while static crowd [WSD]backdrops[/WSD] and blocky, sprite-based athletes tend to point toward technology used in the 1980s. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An image that serves as a visual background.
Sentence:  More [WSD]pushback[/WSD] from Hill on eavesdropping 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Criticism of or resistance to a proposal, stance, or event.
Sentence:  It is difficult to compare the human counterpart of what Jeffcott describes as another 'well known' problem in horses, namely, "[WSD]cold-back[/WSD]". 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A syndrome in which a horse refuses to accept anything on its back (often a symptom of chronic lower back soreness)
Sentence:  ... less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version [WSD]flashbacks[/WSD], and parallel queries. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
Sentence:  Seated on the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] of the courtroom, Emerald had mixed feelings. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A back bench in a courtroom.
Sentence:  Come tomorrow morning you say we are going to have pinkbacks or [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD] and make everybody turn their currency in to the Federal Government. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  However, the region was in the United States [WSD]backyard[/WSD] and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
Sentence:  'Of course, if we didn't finish our work we had to [WSD]stay back[/WSD], and there was no such thing as overtime. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours
Sentence:  Radio Savant wrote two other commercials filled with sarcasm, one of them entitled "Apology." In it, announcer Morris offers a [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] apology that allows him to say ...." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Sentence:  Great Jupiter, upon his eagle [WSD]backed[/WSD], / Appeared to me. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To place or seat upon the back.
Sentence:  It seems that about two hours before that the [WSD]crossback[/WSD] in the hatch which supported the hatch covers, had fallen out, and was lying on the floor of the hold, its fall being due to an ascending draft. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
Sentence:  A [WSD]backcomb[/WSD] comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
Sentence:  He saw Dmitri half rise from his chair so that the shadow of his [WSD]humpback[/WSD] shifted on the whitewashed wall. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).
Sentence:  At least two banknotes of the First national Bank of Albion are known to exist today. Both are $10 [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  Set the restless importunities of talebearers and [WSD]backfriends[/WSD] against fair words and professions 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A false friend; a secret enemy.
Sentence:  Specifically on the question of Article 8 considerations, the Court of Appeal expressed the view that it was difficult to see how a chief constable's decision to disclose [the applicant's charges to the employer] could ever be challenged (see paragraph 81 above). The Court observes that the case was decided against the [WSD]backdrop[/WSD] of a clearly-defined legislative framework (i.e., the 1997 Act, which was in force in England and Wales at the time) which the court took to be in compliance with Article 8 (see paragraph 78 above). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The setting or background of an acted performance.
Sentence:  After his copy had dropped, MacKenzie had gone over to the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] and instructed them: 'Don't change a word of this. Then if he's got it wrong the little fucker won't be able to wriggle out of this one!' 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
Sentence:  The north section of the mine has also a [WSD]crossback[/WSD] or cross-course, but the result at the crossing is so completely reversed that one is struck with astonishment to see the opposites in the same formation. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A cross-course.
Sentence:  Frances is the loser when she agrees to no "[WSD]backsies[/WSD]" or refunds as she buys Thelma's plastic tea dishes with money saved for a china set. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The act of taking back or going back on one's word, promise, or gift.
Sentence:  "And have you nothing for me, duckie?" / "O, you! The [WSD]back of my hand[/WSD] to you!" said Mrs. Kernan tartly. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A display of disrespect or scorn.
Sentence:  [Bendtner was central to it at all, firstly firing home, via a deflection off Gareth McAuley, after being teed up by Sebastien Larsson's neat [WSD]backheel[/WSD], and then a minute later crossing for Elmohamady to head in an equaliser. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
Sentence:  Until this time the railroads had favored [WSD]piggyback[/WSD] services ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
Sentence:  Replace the morbid, bankrupting, [WSD]backward[/WSD] idea of superpower domination: Weapons dismantled. Global warming reversed. Perhaps, in time, overpopulation, poverty, starvation, ignorance and disease all resolved. Thus, moral determination combined with 21st Century science, ecology and social initiatives will make possible a resonant fulfillment of our American Revolution 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Of a thought or value: outdated.
Sentence:  The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to [WSD]take a back seat[/WSD] in public life. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To be second to someone or something; to be less important or have a lower priority.
Sentence:  "... I've a job of work to finish tonight; mourning, as must be in time for the funeral to-morrow; and grandfather has been out moss- hunting, and will not be home till late."/ "Oh, how charming it will be! I'll help you if you're [WSD]backward[/WSD]. Have you much to do?" 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Late or behindhand.
Sentence:  There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD] for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  `That shirt is for the [WSD]fireback[/WSD],' she told him.' 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
Sentence:  What's more, I [WSD]pull back[/WSD] the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
Sentence:  Niger, as a country belongs to the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] of African soccer. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A position of secondary importance.
Sentence:  Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her [WSD]backpack[/WSD] that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person's back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
Sentence:  "But this is marvellous. It might be his portrait."/ "Yes, it is an interesting instance of a [WSD]throwback[/WSD], which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
Sentence:  The [WSD]flowback[/WSD] of a proppant following fracture stimulation treatment is a major concern because of the damage to equipment and loss in well production. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The flowing backward of a fluid.
Sentence:  Another broad issue regarding the physical setting involves decisions about the setting's frontstage and [WSD]backstage[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.
Sentence:  After lunch, I joined my group at the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] for the next class. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back row of a classroom.
Sentence:  But on this particular occasion I was fired on as an individual by an entire battery of enemy artillery, and for some odd and [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] reason I felt important. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Sentence:  As a result of privatization, many are eager to do what a Norwegian rock-star-pastor recommends — namely to occupy the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] of the church. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back pew of a church.
Sentence:  Mr Roger Opie, a Cornish farmer whose military knowledge would make him a formidable adversary if ever the Duchy declared itself independent, was the reader for whom I first imagined myself to be writing; to his encouragement, his wife Sue added the photographic expertise which contrived the flattering portrait that adorns the [WSD]backwing[/WSD] of the jacket. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The flap of a dust jacket that folds around the back cover of a book.
Sentence:  When goods are received at the Future Store, employees transport the pallets from the truck through an RFID gate at the [WSD]backstore[/WSD] entrance. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area in the back of a store or shop.
Sentence:  If horses exhibit a [WSD]cold-back[/WSD], it may well signify an underlying problem, but some horses that have only a [WSD]cold-back[/WSD] and no other signs or performance deficit can be managed by lunging before riding or gradually tightening the girth. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A syndrome in which a horse refuses to accept anything on its back (often a symptom of chronic lower back soreness)
Sentence:  When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing's Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness' own terms—that is, as a random '80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy [WSD]callbacks[/WSD] to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003's "Permission To Land"), "Hot Cakes" marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins' inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine
Sentence:  “If you find a [WSD]redback[/WSD], squash it firmly,” advised one guide. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A venomous spider, (ver=161221), endemic to Australia.
Sentence:  A successful [WSD]wetback[/WSD], the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
Sentence:  There may be one or a dozen or perhaps a hundred or so of supers with partly filled sections, and these are all designated as "[WSD]gobacks[/WSD]". They are either placed on top of other supers that are being built out from foundation, or upon colonies that seem to show a special aptitude for finishing up [WSD]gobacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.
Sentence:  Perhaps omitting Weber from footnotes is intended to avenge his [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] treatment of the American Puritans (and by extension their academic champions), whom he virtually ignored—albeit with unhappy consequences for his own work. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
Sentence:  Some [WSD]backcourts[/WSD] had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
Sentence:  "We don't want no [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD] or kikes around here," Dave said. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Catholic.
Sentence:  I have a goatee, moustache, and medium thick eyebrows. Here to meet some cool peeps so [WSD]Holla back[/WSD] at your Boy. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To make or respond to romantic or sexual overtures.
Sentence:  The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking [WSD]blackback[/WSD] males were also not excluded. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
Sentence:  The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal [WSD]feedbacks[/WSD] in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
Sentence:  These points represent a remnant of the badong or [WSD]backwing[/WSD]. In fact, only those characters that wear a [WSD]backwing[/WSD] in wayang kulit should have these two points (see page 37, Rahwana). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A wing-like projection on the upper back of some a Wayang puppets.
Sentence:  A good spread could be allotted on a news page if the dead person was deemed worthy by the powerful and sceptical members of the “[WSD]backbench[/WSD]” of the senior sub-editors. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
Sentence:  In order to prevent consumers from supplementing their current cash allowance out of cash hoards, it would be necessary either to stamp all dollar bills when the scheme is put into operation or to change them completely; e.g., by printing "[WSD]brownbacks[/WSD]" instead of "greenbacks." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and [WSD]backstretches[/WSD] in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.
Sentence:  On the kick-off, Cochran ran the ball back to the thirty-eight-yard line. It took only seventeen plays, most of them off tackle plunges, before Houlahan slid over the line on a [WSD]crossback[/WSD] for the touchdown. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
Sentence:  [WSD]Kickbacks[/WSD] work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A backward kick.
Sentence:  I was, at first, a little [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] and astounded at the bulk of the volume; but, I turned out early this morning, and with eager hope and expectation set doggedly to work in search of the promised consolation. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  Note the mirror next to the rear warning lights that allows the driver to view the [WSD]backstep[/WSD] area of the apparatus. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
Sentence:  Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and [WSD]back[/WSD] premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Near the rear.
Sentence:  But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, [WSD]come back[/WSD] to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To return to a place.