back formation

It was renamed the Roach in what is known as a back formation.

Its name is not ancient but a back formation from Flitton.

Cambridge perhaps uniquely illustrates both normal and back formation.

It often employs three running back formations, especially in the Bay City version of the offense.

The name of the River Wid is a later back formation.

His name is possibly a back formation from their daughter's name, Enitharmon.

Later, the back formations "commute" and "commuter" were coined therefrom.

The Mayor backed formation of a citizens' review board, but the City Council blocked that idea.

Several hundred polar bears that migrate through this area every year to the ice back formation along the coast of the Hudson Bay.

In Latin, cilia means upper eyelid and is perhaps a back formation from supercilium, meaning eyebrow.

Teams fall in love with the H-back or the six-defensive back formation when it wins Super Bowls.

The term "lasing" is a back formation from "laser," which is an acronym, not an agent noun.

In his senior year at Lincoln High School, the coaches gave him a chance at fullback, in a three back formation.

There are several combinations of single back formations that are used in Division 1 and NFL football.

This river is now known as the River Strat (by back formation from Stratton).

The United States prevented the elections by backing formation of a separate, nonrepresentative government in the South that refused to participate in them.

The supposed original was invented (by back formation) by J. R. R. Tolkien.

With Newman unavailable, the captaincy was passed to Frank Hancock, the Cardiff centre known for introducing the new back formation at club level.

There are many variations on single back formations including two tight ends and two wide receivers, one tight end/three wide receivers, etc.

He made two starts, one as a left cornerback and the other as a nickelback when the Rams open the game in a 5 defensive back formation.

Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.

(OED online first definition of 'back formation' is from the definition of to burgle, which was first published in 1889.)

Beuerlein lined the offense up in a single set back formation, sending his fullback in motion, resulting in an empty backfield and a clear passing formation.

In Super Bowl XXVIII the Buffalo Bills ran a three receiver single back formation.

For example, diagnosis was borrowed from a Greek word (which, incidentally, did not mean the same thing); two hundred years afterwards, the verb diagnose --a back formation --was coined.