backstretch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. isim An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

   “When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.”

3. isim The middle part of an event.

   “I'd decrypted his puzzle easily enough. He'd left it in Zykovski six-gen, a function he knew I could deconstruct, and the pages of slipbeacon data that unfolded had led me here: an abandoned energy plant on another mined-out rock somewhere in the cold backstretches of Imperial space.”

4. isim An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.

   “I went over to the other bed and lay down. My knees were hanging over the side of the bed, providing me with a fairly decent back stretch. With my eyes closed, I could hear sleep calling.”

5. isim The laying of a supply line from the region of the fire backwards toward the water source.
6. fiil To lay a supply line from the region of the fire backwards toward the water source.