Difference between Rear and Back

What is the difference between Rear and Back?

Rear as an adjective is being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company. while Back as an adjective is near the rear.

Rear

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: early; soon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. The buttocks, a creature's bottom

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate. To construct by building; to set up; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally. To lift and take up. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing). To rouse; to strip up. To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse. To sodomize

Example sentence: Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

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: Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

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

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