backstep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From back + step.
Compound parts: back
step
Inflected forms:
form: backsteps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backsteps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backstepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backstepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backstepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A step backwards
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A regression.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
pos: noun
gloss: Flow over a backward-facing step.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: With care it is possible to combine a median-of-three mechanism with partitioning that avoids backstep initialization.
gloss: A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: To take a step backwards
pos: verb
gloss: To return to a previous place or time.
pos: verb
gloss: To retract or take back.
pos: verb
examples: Tony's smile departed his face and sadness became him. Pete began to backstep his words. He was filled with remorse over what he had asked the Corporal and was quick to reassure Tony that she was there, waiting.
gloss: To be arranged in steps going backwards.
pos: verb
examples: Le Vau is responsible for the jutting central core, while the wings that backstep so elegantly were designed Hardouin-Mansart.
gloss: To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
pos: verb
examples: As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to backstep, with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones.
In some localities the bank margins of several cycles are stacked above each other^([sic]), in other places they backstep or prograde relative to each other.
gloss: To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
pos: verb
examples: Robust adaptive backstepping control algorithms are developed for state feedback tracking of a class of uncertain dynamic nonlinear systems preceded by unknown dead-zone nonlinearities, in the presence of bounded external disturbances.
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