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SHORELINE Credit Union (finance) and backward (iou)


SHORELINE Credit Union (finance)


SHORELINE is a credit union with head office in MUSKEGON, MI





backward (iou)



backward adverb, adjective, verb, & noun. . ME.
[Aphet. from ABACKWARD: later assoc. with BACK noun1.]
A. adverb.
I. Towards one's back, or the back of anything.
Of movement: in the direction of one's back or away from one's front. ME.
bend over backward(s), fall over backward(s), lean over backward(s) fig. go to the opposite extreme to avoid possible bias etc., do one's utmost to oblige, accommodate, etc.
S. Hill She had fallen heavily backwards down the stairs.
b. With verbs of continuous motion: with the back foremost, with the face to the rear. ME.
J. H. Newman We walk to heaven backward. A. J. P. Taylor Like the country at large, they entered war socialism backwards, and were surprised at what they had done.
Of position: towards the back or rear of a place; away from the front. obsolete or arch. LME.
II. Towards what is behind in position or course.
In the direction which (as regards one's ordinary position) is behind one, or from which one is moving. (Now more usu. expressed by back or behind.) arch. LME.
Browning Whom else could I dare look backward for?
Of things: towards the place of starting, in the direction opposite to that of previous progress. (Not normally used of people or animals, where ambiguity might arise.) LME.
backward and forward, backwards and forwards in both directions alternately, to and fro.
Dryden Like some impetuous flood, which mastered once, With double force bends backward.
In the direction of retreat. LME.
Byron They are beaten backward from the palace.
fig. Towards or into a worse state; into decline. LME.
G. B. Shaw He regarded that as a step backward in civilization.
Of time: towards or in the past. (More usu. expressed by back.) arch. LME.
M. Mitchell Bitter-eyed women who looked backward, to dead times, to dead men, evoking memories that hurt and were futile.
III. In the reverse direction or order.
In a direction opposite to the normal, in the reverse way. LME.
know something backward(s) know something thoroughly, be very well versed in something. ring the bells backward(s) arch.: beginning with the bass bell, to give an alarm etc.
L. Durrell Damn the word [love]...I would like to spell it backwards as you say the Elizabethans did God. J. le Carre Sloping his pen backwards he practised the second signature until he was satisfied with it. M. Frayn As if in a Film of a breaking vase run backwards the pieces flew miraculously together.
b. adjective. [Attrib. (often ellipt.) use of the adverb; but analogous to adjectives in -WARD of Old English origin.]
Directed to the back or rear. LME.
R. Sutcliff He watched her walking away without a backward glance.
Directed in the opposite way; of or pertaining to return. LME.
W. C. Bryant And takes the backward way with trembling limbs.
Perverse, unfavourable. L16-M18.
Turning or hanging back from action; reluctant, chary; shy, bashful. L16.
backward in coming forward colloq. reluctant, shy (to do something), reticent, (freq. in neg. contexts).
Shakespeare Henry V Perish the man whose mind is backward now.
Placed towards or at the back; obsolete exc. Cricket (of a fielding position) behind the line of the wicket. E17.
backward point, backward short leg, etc. (in cricket).
S. Johnson A lodging in the backward garret of a mean house.
Reaching into the past; retrospective. M17.
Byron The soul..flies unconscious o'er each backward year.
Behindhand in respect of progress; late (esp. of the season or crops); slow to learn; educationally subnormal. L17.
G. Greene I'd have gone to Oxford..but they are very backward in technology. A. S. Neill We do not take mentally defective children, but a child who is backward at school is a different story. A. J. Toynbee To help..Other still backward peoples on the outer edges of Mexico, to find their way into the modern world.
Done in the reverse way; reversed. E18.
Pope The backward labours of her faithless hand.
C. verb trans. & intrans. Put or keep back, retard; go backward. Now rare. L16.
D. noun. The past portion of time. rare. E17.
Shakespeare Tempest What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
Special collocations & comb.: backward compatibility (of new technology) the capacity to interact with products designed to be used with an earlier version of that technology. backward compatible adjective having backward compatibility. backward masking Psychology a diminution in the response to a stimulus as a result of a second stimulus following closely after it.
backwardly adverb M16.
backwardness noun L16.