hark back

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
2. fiil To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.

   “He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.”

3. fiil To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).

   “Harking back to the theme of a series of speeches he [George W. Bush] delivered last week, he said he was reminded that "there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again."”

4. fiil To call back (hounds); to recall.
5. isim An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
6. isim An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).