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backstop 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈbakˌstäp/,
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backstops, plural;
  1. Act as backstop for

  2. Act as goaltender for

  3. Support or reinforce
    • - the founding banks were backstopping the loans
Noun
  1. A person or thing placed at the rear of or behind something as a barrier, support, or reinforcement
    • - bullets volleyed into the backstop of a flood-control canal
  2. A high fence or similar structure behind the home plate area

  3. A catcher
    • - he tore the chest protector completely off the big Yankee backstop
  4. An emergency precaution or last resort
    • - the human operator has to act as the ultimate backstop when things go badly wrong
  1. act as a backstop
  2. catcher: (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
  3. (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
  4. a precaution in case of an emergency; "he acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong"
  5. A device that prevents railroad cars from rolling off a railroad track; A wall behind home plate; A catcher; the position of catcher; To serve as backstop for; To bolster
  6. (Backstops) The point the seat (slide) stops moving forward toward the bow.
  7. Reinforced area of the entrance pit wall directly behind the track.
  8. Fence or wall behind home plate.
  9. A device constructed to stop or redirect bullets fired on a range. This is usually an earthen structure, placed between 16 and 20 feet in vertical height, built in accordance with NRA recommended standards.
  10. The structure of a relay which limits the travel of the armature away from the pole-piece or core.
  11. Impact area for archery and firearm projectiles.
  12. Layer of tobacco and pitjies* at the bottom of a bottleneck* to stop it from burning down to the gerrick*.
  13. substantiation or verification, either authentic or synthetic, for a LEGEND or COVER, as to bolster a lie with more lies; see TRADECRAFT. Also, any support, safeguard, or reinforcement, as with reserves. [cf: backup, second-string]
  14. A mechanical device for preventing a loaded, inclined conveyor or elevator belt from running backwards after the belt has been stopped.
  15. 1.  A barrier at the end of a court to stop disks from leaving the play area
  16. A term used to cover a staff failure to properly wargame a course of action. Also a term used by infantry showing how “hope” is a method incorporated to defeat the enemy. “If the enemy gets through the engagement area, we have Delta Company placed here – to back stop the Battalion defense.
  17. Continental rocks in the backarc that are landward from the trace of the subduction thrust fault and that are strong enough to support stress accumulation. These rocks are both igneous and dewatered, lithified, consolidated sediments that probably were part of the accretionary wedge. ...
  18. A small block on the bow end of the slide, which holds the seat on track.
  19. Also known as the goaltender, or the goalkeeper.
  20. A bag that lands past the cornhole but remains on the board creating a backboard for a slider to knock into without going off the board.
  21. When a bag lands at the back of the board, but just past the hole. This allows a subsequent throw to use it as a backstop.
  22. In-depth cover stories. For example, if someone is investigating an agent, and goes to their fictional place of business, and the agency has put a false business with false employees there, they are said to have 'run up against the backstop'.
  23. A barrier beyond a target to stop bullets that have passed through or missed the target.
  24. The barrier behind the home plate.