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I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.
Chris Carter

Meaning of "back and forth" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BACK AND FORTH

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACK AND FORTH

back alley
back and fill
back bacon
back bay
back boiler
back burner
back catalogue
back copy
back country
back cover
back crawl
back door
back down
back electromotive force
back emf
back emission
back end
back flip
back foot
back formation

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACK AND FORTH

bring forth
Butterworth
call forth
Cornforth
Fort Worth
forth
go forth
henceforth
hold forth
north
put forth
set forth
straightforth
tamworth
the Far North
the North
thenceforth
Wentworth
whenceforth
worth

Synonyms and antonyms of back and forth in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «back and forth» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACK AND FORTH

Find out the translation of back and forth to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of back and forth from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «back and forth» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

来回
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de ida y vuelta
570 millions of speakers

English

back and forth
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आगे - पीछे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذهابا وإيابا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

назад и вперед
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vai e volta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পিছনে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aller et retour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Belakang dan sebagainya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hin und her
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前後に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

앞뒤로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bali lan kasebut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்னும் பின்னுமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मागे आणि पुढे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geri ve ileri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avanti e indietro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tam iz powrotem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

назад і вперед
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înainte și înapoi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπρός και πίσω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heen en weer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fram och tillbaka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frem og tilbake
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of back and forth

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACK AND FORTH»

The term «back and forth» is very widely used and occupies the 16.036 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BACK AND FORTH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about back and forth

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10 QUOTES WITH «BACK AND FORTH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word back and forth.
1
Karen Allen
My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.
2
Neil Armstrong
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
3
John Baldessari
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
4
Dennis C. Blair
I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.
5
David Bohm
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
6
Chris Carter
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.
7
Paul Cellucci
There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.
8
Stockard Channing
It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.
9
Dan Chaon
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
10
Willem Dafoe
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACK AND FORTH»

Discover the use of back and forth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to back and forth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Back and Forth
Simple text and photographs provide examples of back and forth movement, including the pendulum in a clock, a child in a rocking chair, and tree in the wind.
Lola M. Schaefer, 2001
2
Back and Forth
A simple introduction to back and forth movement.
Patricia J. Murphy, 2002
3
Looking Back (and Forth): Reflections of an Old-fashioned Doctor
"In lucid, witty prose, Dr. Fred laments the demise of bedside medicine.
Herbert L. Fred, 2002
4
Back-N-Forth: Recollections of a Crop Duster BACK-N-FORTH
So let's cinch up our crash helmet, strap on our safety harness, light the fires, and go...BACK-N-FORTH!
Leonard Belisle, 2008
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Back and Forth: Photocopiable Pair Activities for Language ...
This resource is ideal for conversation, listening-speaking, and pronunciation classes! It'll get conversation going "back and forth" and beyond!
Adrian S. Palmer, Theodore S. Rodgers, Judy Winn-Bell Olsen, 1985
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Back and Forth
" BACK AND FORTH is new work from William Corbett, well-known poet, Boston institution and editor of Pressed Wafer. His ALL PROSE, selected essays and reviews, is due out from Zoland this fall. Saddlestapled chapbook
William Corbett, 2001
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Bottle Caps
Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. We run like insane white lemmings . I wave my flagella, swimming out of the testes and through the vas deferens, through the maze of tubes and glands, moving frantically towards the finish line.
Jameson Kowalczyk, 2003
8
Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of ...
The Being of my pen — its sense, its meaning, its significance as the particular kind of thing it is — is given by its place within such a holistic network, a network constantly humming with simultaneous back-and-forth references among the ...
James C. Edwards, 2010
9
The Good News about the Bad News: Herpes, Everything You ...
The virus won't be passed back and forth during sex; you can't get again what you already have. There's actually a great freedom that can come from that situation. Sex can blossom whenever the mood strikes (taking into account acceptable ...
Terri Warren, 2009
10
Attitudes Toward History
Or else it is compensated by a strategic solution, the "stealing back and forth" of authoritative symbols. When advocates of the old order have built up the prestige for such symbols as "liberty, justice, fraternity," a proponent of the new order may  ...
Kenneth Burke, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACK AND FORTH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term back and forth is used in the context of the following news items.
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Damon Albarn Carried Off Stage By Festival Security After 5-Hour Set
After a couple minutes of back and forth, the burly, baldheaded man finally lifts Albarn off the ground and carries him off, amongst a flurry of ... «Billboard, Jul 15»
2
True Detective season 2 is all penis problems, all the time
(For the record, I go back and forth, just as I do on the season as a whole.) Ray is the character who seems most like any character from season ... «Vox, Jul 15»
3
Unseen footage of Nicolas Cage in costume for Superman Lives …
... suit will “feel looser the more I wear it” as he tests the limits of the outfit by swinging his arms back and forth and reaching towards the ceiling. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Love & Mercy: the rise and fall of tortured genius Brian Wilson
The movie flashes back and forth between the awkward Brian of the Pet Sounds/Smile period and the sorrier later figure, imprisoned in his own ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Sharks as you won't see them on Shark Week: Intelligent and …
To start, he and colleagues taught a group of sharks how to get a food reward: by swimming back and forth between a pair of delineated areas ... «Vox, Jul 15»
6
Back and Forth: The Ford Tri Motor plane returns to Rochester
When we were kids we looked to the skies when an airplane was overhead — and we don't change when we're adults. We'll have the ... «Post-Bulletin, Jul 15»
7
Royals drop back and forth matchup with Houston; swept by Astros …
Royals drop back and forth matchup with Houston; swept by Astros in series. July 2, 2015 by Missourinet Contributor. Jarrod Dyson. Chris Carter homered and ... «Missourinet.com, Jul 15»
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The Testy Back and Forth Between Senators Thimbrel and Shoman
And inside the Senate on Wednesday, things got testy between Senators Thimbrel and Shoman. The U.D.P. senator said that the “U.D.P. ... «channel5belize, Jul 15»
9
Furious back and forth on Florida's 24-hour waiting period
The action on Florida's 24-waiting period is coming fast and furious. By the time you read this update, the legal status may have changed yet ... «National Right to Life News, Jul 15»
10
Abortion Law Back and Forth
Starting today, people using fake service dogs might find it a littler harder to pull off their scam. New Legislation gives businesses more ... «Capitol News Service, Jul 15»

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