Difference between Cover and Back

What is the difference between Cover and Back?

Cover as a noun is a lid. while Back as a noun is the rear of body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

Cover

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A lid. The hiding from view. The front and back of a book or magazine. The top sheet of a bed. A cover charge. A setting at a restaurant table. A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song. A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30 forward of square; a fielder in this position. A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set. An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc. A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire. In commercial law, a buyer's purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for. An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place something over or upon to conceal or protect. To feature, discuss, or mention. To provide enough money for. To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist). To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing. To provide insurance coverage for. to copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

Example sentence: I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

Back

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Near the rear.Not current.Far from the main area.Produced in the back of the mouth.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The rear of body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.The spine and associated tissues.The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.That which is farthest away from the front.Area behind, such as the backyard of a houseThe part of something that goes last.The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.The edge of a book which is bound.The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.That part of the body that bears clothing.In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.The keel and keelson of a ship.The inside margin of a page.The roof of a horizontal underground passage.Effort, usually physical.Large and attractive buttocks.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: (Not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.Away from the front or from an edge.In a manner that impedes.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To go in the reverse direction.To support.the change direction contrary to its normal pattern (anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern)to brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the shipto lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power

Example sentence: Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

We hope you now know whether to use Cover or Back in your sentence.

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