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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
fall back
A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which
experience data corruption, e.g. due to line noise, can
renegotiate to use a lower speed connection. See also fall
forward.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
fall back
v 1: fall backwards and down
2: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall behind]
3: move back and away from; "The enemy fell back" [syn: recede,
retire] [ant: advance]
4: retreat [syn: lose, drop off, fall behind, recede]
[ant: gain]
5: have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing
meat" [syn: resort, recur]
6: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often
minor criminals" [syn: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress,
retrogress]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
fall back
vb.
1 (&lit en fall back)
2 To retreat.
3 To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
fall back
vb.
1 (&lit en fall back)
2 To retreat.
3 To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
fall back
vb.
1 (&lit en fall back)
2 To retreat.
3 To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
fall back
vb.
1 (&lit en fall back)
2 To retreat.
3 To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
fall back
Englanti vb.
perääntyä
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
fall back /fˈɔːl bˈak/
stáhnout se
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
fall back /fˈɔːl bˈak/
ustoupit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
fall back /fˈɔːl bˈak/
odpadávat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
fall back /fˈɔːl bˈak/
ustoupit
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
fall back /fˈɔːl bˈak/
1. पीछे~होना
"I have my parents to fall back on."
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "fall back":
avoid, back, back down, back out, back up, backslide,
beat a retreat, blench, blink, come after, come last, cringe,
degenerate, deteriorate, disengage, disimprove, dodge, draw back,
draw off, duck, evade, fade, fall, fall again into, fall astern,
fall behind, fall from grace, flinch, follow, get worse, give back,
give ground, give place, go back, go backwards, grow worse,
hang back, have a relapse, jib, lag behind, lapse, lapse back,
let down, move back, pull back, pull out, quail, recidivate,
recoil, recur to, reel back, regress, relapse, retire, retract,
retreat, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return to, revert,
revert to, run back, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shy, sicken,
sidestep, sink back, slacken, slide back, slip back, stand back,
start aside, start back, swerve, trail, trail behind, turn aside,
weasel, weasel out, wince, withdraw, worsen, yield again to
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
撤退,后退
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
后退,退却
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