back (body part)
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book spine
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | back | |
| meaning 1 | rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | book spine | The titles are printed on the backs of the books. |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | spine | |
| meaning 1 | series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name | The spine is the book's backbone. Because the spine is generally all you can see when a book is on the shelf, the spine displays the title and author of the book and is often ornately decorated. (“Rare Book Basics: Book Terms Illustrated”, in Powell's City of Books http://web.archive.org/web/20140705063024/http://www.powells.com/rarebooks/bookbasics.html ) |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | dos | |
| meaning 1 | back (body part) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | book back | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||