gobackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

goback (plural gobacks)

1. (US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.

   Synonym: turnaround

   • 1993, John D. Unruh, The Plains Across:

     Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]

   • 2005, David Dary, The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, page 230:

     How many turned around and headed for wherever they came from is not known, but these "gobacks" or "turnarounds," as many emigrants called them, often complained that there was either little or no grass for their animals or that there was too much cholera or that the Indian threat was too great.

2. (beekeeping) A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.
   • 1900 August 2, “Dr. Miller's "Goback" Sections”, in American Bee Journal, volume 40:

     There may be one or a dozen or perhaps a hundred or so of supers with partly filled sections, and these are all designated as "gobacks". They are either placed on top of other supers that are being built out from foundation, or upon colonies that seem to show a special aptitude for finishing up gobacks.

   • 1909, Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 37, page 787:

     Bees will then work in the whole super evenly and leave no gobacks.

動詞

go back (third-person singular simple present goes back, present participle going back, simple past went back, past participle gone back)

1. (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

   We were getting cold so we decided to go back.

   Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

     He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

     Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest.
     Wrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back.

使用する際の注意点

• (return): Go back is used chiefly when talking about returning to a place where the speaker is not presently located. Otherwise come back is more common.

派生語

• go back on
• go back to
• go back to where you came from

参考

• come back
• turn back

同意語

• put-back