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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Back and forth (0.00987 detik)
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English → English (WordNet) Definition: back and forth back and forth adv : moving from one place to another and back again; “he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York” [syn: backward and forward, to and fro]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Back and forth Forth \Forth\, v.[AS. for[eth], fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort [root]78. See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.] 1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. [1913 Webster] Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] From this time forth, I never will speak word. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. --Strype. [1913 Webster] 2. Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. [1913 Webster] When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. [1913 Webster] I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From. Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] --Shak. To bring forth. See under Bring. [1913 Webster] Back \Back\, adv. [Shortened from aback.] 1. In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back. [1913 Webster] 2. To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it. [1913 Webster] 3. To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism. [1913 Webster] 4. (Of time) In times past; ago. “Sixty or seventy years back.” --Gladstone. [1913 Webster] 5. Away from contact; by reverse movement. [1913 Webster] The angel of the Lord . . . came, and rolled back the stone from the door. --Matt. xxviii. 2. [1913 Webster] 6. In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another. [1913 Webster] 7. In a state of restraint or hindrance. [1913 Webster] The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. --Numb. xxiv. 11. [1913 Webster] 8. In return, repayment, or requital. [1913 Webster] What have I to give you back? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back the offensive words. [1913 Webster] 10. In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Back and forth, backwards and forwards; to and fro. To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

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