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anchor: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" spinal column: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" spine: the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book" the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
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| backache |
an ache localized in the back
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| backing |
the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives" something forming a back that is added for strengthening support: financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
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| bacteriolytic |
of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis
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| backcross |
mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents
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