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Back and forth   /bæk ənd fɔrθ/   Listen
adverb
Back  adv.  
1.
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
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.
3.
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
4.
(Of time) In times past; ago. "Sixty or seventy years back."
5.
Away from contact; by reverse movement. "The angel of the Lord... came, and rolled back the stone from the door."
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.
7.
In a state of restraint or hindrance. "The Lord hath kept thee back from honor."
8.
In return, repayment, or requital. "What have I to give you back?"
9.
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back the offensive words.
10.
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent. (Colloq.)
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.)


verb
Forth  v.  
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. "Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth." "From this time forth, I never will speak word." "I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more."
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. "When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun."
3.
Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. "I have no mind of feasting forth to-night."
4.
Throughly; from beginning to end. (Obs.)
And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From.
Forth of, Forth from, out of. (Obs.)
To bring forth. See under Bring.





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"Back and forth" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the afternoon Ambrose, making his endless tramp back and forth across the little shack, paused to take an observation from the window, and saw three horsemen come tearing down the ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... hurry and hear the news—came in my letter!" And the missive was waved back and forth to urge ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... the north-eastern hills, where a farmer's daub-and-wattle cottage stood, were the prisoners of war, chatting and joking with their captors. The officers walked slowly back and forth, never raising their eyes from the ground. Dejection was written on their faces. Near them were the captured waggons, with groups of noisy soldiers climbing over them in search of their luggage. On the ground others ...
— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas
... gave one a sense of acute unreality, for it was an empty city, a city the work of which went on almost without the aid of human hands. The very soul of it was mechanical. Only here and there, where a drill crew was at work, did an occasional human figure move back and forth in the glare of low-hung incandescents, nevertheless the whole place breathed and throbbed; it was instinct with a tremendous vigor. From all sides came the ceaseless rhythmic clank of pumps, the hiss of gas and steam, the gurgling flow of liquid—they were the ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... exageration, (a ripple of laughter dances over the congregation), having a great meaning, however." * * * * "David gives us only his intense life." (The audience smile). (11:35). The preacher becoming dramatic in gesticulation and oratorical in delivery, walks back and forth upon the elevated platform. While describing the crosses which he saw yesterday, he becomes highly excited, swinging his arms above his head. "Crosses everywhere. All the way up street; on every beauty's ...
— The Youthful Wanderer - An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany • George H. Heffner


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