"backlash" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/ Audio: en-us-backlash.ogg Forms: backlashes [plural]
Etymology: From back + lash. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|lash}} back + lash Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)
  1. (literal) A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (sudden backward motion): ритане (ritane) (Bulgarian), pludselig reaktion [common-gender] (Danish), tegenstroom (Dutch), verzet (Dutch), takapotku (Finnish), αντίδραση (antídrasi) [feminine] (Greek), reazione [feminine] (Italian), coice [masculine] (Portuguese), reação [feminine] (Portuguese), reacción [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-backlash-en-noun-cdozUynw Disambiguation of 'sudden backward motion': 65 16 4 14
  2. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Translations (violent or abrupt reaction): 反彈 (Chinese Mandarin), 反弹 (fǎntán) (Chinese Mandarin), voldsom reaktion [common-gender] (Danish), voldsom protestreaktion [common-gender] (Danish), tegenstroom (Dutch), verzet (Dutch), protestreago (Esperanto), vastareaktio (Finnish), retour de bâton [masculine] (French), retour de manivelle [masculine] (French), საპირისპირო რეაქცია (saṗirisṗiro reakcia) (Georgian), უარყოფითი რეაქცია (uarq̇opiti reakcia) (Georgian), ძლიერი უარყოფითი რეაქცია (ʒlieri uarq̇opiti reakcia) (Georgian), Gegenreaktion [feminine] (German), αντίκτυπος (antíktypos) [masculine] (Greek), εξέγερση (exégersi) [feminine] (Greek), contraccolpo (Italian), バックラッシュ (bakkurasshu) (Japanese), sprzeciw [masculine] (Polish), comoção [feminine] (Portuguese), revolta [feminine] (Portuguese), motim [masculine] (Portuguese), реа́кция (reákcija) (alt: обра́тная) [feminine] (Russian), ответка (otvetka) [feminine, slang] (Russian), отпор (otpor) [masculine] (Russian), negatívna odozva [feminine] (Slovak), silná reakcia (Slovak), veľký odpor [masculine] (Slovak), contragolpe [masculine] (Spanish), chống đối (Vietnamese)
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  3. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mechanics Translations (mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts): луфт (luft) (Bulgarian), хлабина (hlabina) (Bulgarian), spil [neuter] (Danish), speling (Dutch), välys (Finnish), klappi (Finnish), löysä (Finnish), jeu [masculine] (French), Spiel [neuter] (German), διάκενο (diákeno) [neuter] (Greek), holtjáték (Hungarian), ligean [masculine] (Irish), gioco (Italian), passo [masculine] (Italian), バックラッシュ (bakkurasshu) (Japanese), luz [masculine] (Polish), jogo [masculine] (Portuguese), мёртвый ход (mjórtvyj xod) [masculine] (Russian), люфт (ljuft) [masculine] (Russian), зазо́р (zazór) [masculine] (Russian), свобо́дный ход (svobódnyj xod) [masculine] (Russian), зазор [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), zazor [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vôľa [feminine] (Slovak), juego [masculine] (Spanish), holgura [feminine] (Spanish), huelgo [masculine] (Spanish), spel [neuter] (Swedish)
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  4. (mechanics) The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mechanics Synonyms: lash, play Translations (jarring motion in badly fitting machinery): биене (biene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), speling (Dutch), välys (Finnish), klappi (Finnish), scuotimento [masculine] (Italian), stridore [masculine] (Italian), dissonanza [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-backlash-en-noun-8b0uIfAv Categories (other): Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 7 40 10 11 32 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 37 9 10 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 7 39 10 12 32 Topics: engineering, mechanical-engineering, mechanics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'jarring motion in badly fitting machinery': 9 4 21 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: antibacklash, backlasher, bikelash, blacklash, forelash, frontlash, greenlash, techlash, whitelash, wokelash

Verb

IPA: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/ Audio: en-us-backlash.ogg Forms: backlashes [present, singular, third-person], backlashing [participle, present], backlashed [participle, past], backlashed [past]
Etymology: From back + lash. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|lash}} back + lash Head templates: {{en-verb}} backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)
  1. To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.
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Inflected forms

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          "roman": "reákcija",
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          "word": "реа́кция"
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          "ref": "1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 54",
          "text": "In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running."
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        "The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear)."
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        "(mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear)."
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          "ref": "1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 54",
          "text": "In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running."
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      "sense": "sudden backward motion",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "reação"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sudden backward motion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "word": "反彈"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "word": "vastareaktio"
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      "word": "retour de bâton"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "retour de manivelle"
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      "roman": "saṗirisṗiro reakcia",
      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "word": "საპირისპირო რეაქცია"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "uarq̇opiti reakcia",
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      "word": "უარყოფითი რეაქცია"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "ʒlieri uarq̇opiti reakcia",
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      "word": "ძლიერი უარყოფითი რეაქცია"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "antíktypos",
      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αντίκτυπος"
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      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "comoção"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "revolta"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "motim"
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    {
      "alt": "обра́тная",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "reákcija",
      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "contragolpe"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "violent or abrupt reaction",
      "word": "chống đối"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "luft",
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      "word": "луфт"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "välys"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "gioco"
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      "word": "バックラッシュ"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "зазор"
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vôľa"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "juego"
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      "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "holgura"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "huelgo"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts",
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      "roman": "biene",
      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "биене"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
      "word": "speling"
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "scuotimento"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "stridore"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "jarring motion in badly fitting machinery",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dissonanza"
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          "text": "1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII\nThrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a \"long shop\" with three hundred, a \"top shop\" with a hundred, a \"back shop\" with fifty-three, and a \"little shop\" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and \"backlashed\" all over the place."
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          "ref": "1895 W. C. Kepler. Uncle and the Bass The American Angler - Volume 25 - Page 226",
          "text": "Just as it began to get dusk and the shadows from the trees deepening the twilight that had already spread over the lake, giving a peculiarly lonesome effect that water always has upon the approach of night, Uncle succeeded in getting out the longest cast he had yet made — about seventy-five feet. Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately, his reel over-ran and backlashed for him. Patiently he set about untangling his line; I resting the oars and holding the boat stationary."
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          "text": "1909 La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique v. Hayes. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 16, 1909.) No. 205.\nThere was testimony that but for the orders of these men, or one of them, the case would have been properly backlashed before being lowered into the hold and that the anxiety of the foreman to get the cargo in quickly induced him to order this case sent down without being properly safeguarded."
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          "ref": "1922 Interstate Commerce Commission. Fifth Annual Report. Chief Inspector of Locomotive Boilers. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector. Bureau of Locomotive Inspection. To the Interstate Commerce Commission",
          "text": "May 2, 1922, locomotive 2469 , Hornell, N. Y. Screw reverse gear backlashed due to latch spring too weak to hold it in place ; 1 injured"
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          "ref": "1936 Gifford Pinchot. Two's Company. The Rotarian April 1936",
          "text": "I have the faculty of getting more backlashed in less casts with more kinds of guaranteed anti-backlash reels than any man who reads this sad confession. I am letter-perfect at it. Yet I do sometimes catch fish."
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "backlash (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "backlash"
}

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