piggyback

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat On somebody's back or shoulders.

   “give someone a piggyback ride”

2. sıfat Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.

   “A Montreal-Toronto "Piggyback" freight of the Canadian Pacific.”

3. sıfat Attached or appended to something larger or more important.

   “piggyback legislation”

4. zarf On somebody's back or shoulders.

   “to ride piggyback”

5. fiil To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
6. fiil To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
7. fiil To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

   “They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.”

8. fiil To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
9. fiil To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
10. fiil To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.

    “American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between.”

11. fiil To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.

    “Okay, when someone accesses a door with a card key, anyone additional who comes in with them is piggy-backing on their access, like someone riding piggy-back. Get it?”

12. isim A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
13. isim An act or instance of piggybacking.

    “The growth is taken for granted; what absorbs Americans today is the implication of piggyback for gross revenues and, more important, net profits.”

14. isim The connection of one intravenous drip to another.

    “Piggyback medications are given through a port of an existing intravenous site. […] Calculation of the drip rate for piggybacks is the same as any other drip rate.”