Look up: backing

1. Backing
   1) Cloth or solid pieces placed behind doorways and other openings on sets to conceal the stage machinery or building behind. 2) Financial support for a production.
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2. backing
   [n] - something forming a back that is added for strengthening 2. [n] - the act of providing approval and support
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3. Backing
   Scenery used behind, and limiting the view of the audience through an opening (e.g. doorway or window) in a set. See also masking.
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4. Backing
   A material or device placed against the back side of the joint, or at both sides of a weld in electroslag and electrogas welding, to support and retain molten metal. The material may be partially fused or remain unfused during welding and may be metal or non-metal.
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5. Backing
   In bookbinding, the process of sewing and shaping the spine of a sewn textblock
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6. Backing
   In art conservation, a method of reinforcing a work of art on paper or canvas by applying a paper or fabric lining with an adhesive
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7. Backing
   an anticlockwise shift in wind direction
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8. Backing
   A change of wind in an anticlockwise direction. This is the opposite of Veering, which is a change of wind in a clockwise direction.
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9. Backing
   Refers to the carrier sheet of material in a pressure sensitive lamination as opposed to the face material. Usually has a release coating applied so that the adhesive will not stick too tightly to it. Release liner, backing paper, carrier, etc.
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10. backing
    a counter-clockwise change of wind direction in either hemisphere Category: The cosmos • a flat or scenic cloth visible through an opening such as a door. Category: General • special coating of dye, pigment, or paper applied to the back of the support of the plate or film to ...
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11. Backing
    The dark coating, normally on the back of a film, but sometimes between emulsion and the base, to reduce halation. The backing dye disappears during the processing.
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12. Backing
    Back'ing noun 1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability. 3. Support or aid given to a person or cause...
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13. backing
    In dentistry, a metal support which serves to attach a facing to a prosthesis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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14. backing
    backup noun the act of providing approval and support; `his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives`
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15. backing
    mount noun something forming a back that is added for strengthening
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16. Backing
    • (n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. • (n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover. • (n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability. • (p. pr. &...
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17. backing
    Type: Term Pronunciation: bak′ing Definitions: 1. In dentistry, a metal support that serves to attach a facing to a prosthesis.
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18. Backing
    The dark coating, normally on the back of a film, but sometimes between emulsion and the base, to reduce halation. The backing dye disappears during the processing
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19. backing
    Reinforcement on the back of the bow
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20. Backing
    Frame lumber installed between the wall studs to give additional support for drywall or an interior trim related item, such as handrail brackets, cabinets, and towel bars. In this way, items are screwed and mounted into solid wood rather than weak drywall that may allow the item to break loose from ...
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21. backing
    
    • the act of providing approval and support
    • financial resources provided to make some project possible
    • be behind; approve of
    • give support or one's blessing to
    • place a bet on
    • shift to a counterclockwise direction, of the wind
    • establish as valid or genuine
    
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22. BACKING
    A counterclockwise shift in the wind direction in the Northern Hemisphere at a certain location. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is clockwise. This can either happen in the horizontal or the vertical (with height). For example, the wind shifts from the northeast to the north to the northwest. It is the opposite of veering.
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23. Backing
    The changing of the wind in the opposite direction to veering (anticlockwise), e.g. SE to NE
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24. Backing
    Backing is a term that is used for one of two things and players can tell if it is backing if you hear the coin fall to the bottom of the machine. The first thing that backing can mean is that the machine is full because it hasn't been won recently and is full of money and the second thing that it c...
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