à la renverse

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Определение à la renverse в Французский Язык Английский Язык словарь

backwards

Toward the back

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard.

In a manner such that the back precedes the front

The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.

Clumsy, inept, or inefficient

He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.

Oriented toward the back

The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.

Behind current trends or technology

Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.

In the opposite direction of usual

If someone or something moves backwards and forwards, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. Draw the floss backwards and forwards between the teeth. people travelling backwards and forwards to and from London

to the rear, to the back; in reverse

at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"

to bend over backwards: see bend

Reversed

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards

By way of reflection; reflexively

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward

If you do something backwards, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way. He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards