back endnoun
/ˈbæk ˌend//ˈbæk ˌend/back end noun (BACK PART)
[ C ] the part of an object or place that is furthest from the front:
He made the car's back end blunter and more aerodynamic.
[ C ] a person's or animal's bottom:
A cow will always turn around and smell the back end of a calf.
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- The shape of the car's back end gives it more drag than most cars.
- The emergency exits are at the front and back ends of the train.
- The baby and I moved to the back end of the house so the rest of the family could sleep.
- He's got a big back end on him, he looks very powerful.
- About half of this carbon dioxide comes out of the back ends of cattle.
- If you cause trouble it might come back and bite you in the back end.
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After & behind
- after
- back
- background
- backside
- be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
- behind
- bring
- bring up the rear idiom
- hard/hot/close on sb's heels idiom
- heel
- hot
- in back of idiom
- in hot pursuit idiom
- leave sth in your wake idiom
- nose
- nose to tail idiom
- posterior
- rear
- wake
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Words meaning parts of things
Miscellaneous animal body parts
The buttocks
back end noun (LAST PART)
[ S ] the last part of a process, series of events, or period of time:
We're not willing to spend on the front end - education for these kids - so we pay at the back end, for problems with crime and violence.
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- About one third of hospital medication errors happen at the front end, when a doctor prescribes the wrong drug or the wrong dose. But then there is the back end: a medication administered to the wrong patient.
- Covering everyone with medical insurance up front would actually save money, he said. "It actually costs us more on the back end."
- It's hard to reconstruct 12 months' worth of spending at the back end.
- "The real impact will be on the back end," Foster said. "In four or five years, we will see an impact."
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Final and finally
- antepenultimate
- as a last resort idiom
- at the end of the day idiom
- back end
- closing
- conclusion
- end
- eventual
- eventually
- final
- finally
- hear/see the last of sth idiom
- last
- lastly
- latest
- latter
- next to last
- the last but one idiom
- ultimately
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Order and sequence - general words
back end noun (COMPUTING)
[ C ] specialized computing the part of a computer system, piece of software, etc., where data is stored or processed rather than the parts that are seen and directly used by the user:
Two of the most popular SQL back ends are MySQL and SQL Server.
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- A back end may be a database server that responds to SQL requests from a workstation running a front end application.
- The server at the back end controls the information flow to the mobile handsets.
- This is a Web-based solution designed for expanding corporate information centres, with new features and a new back end.
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- blogosphere
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- enter
- gigabyte
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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Idiom(s)
look like the back end of a bus