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Backread vs Backhead - What's the difference?

backread | backhead |

As a verb backread

is (internet|slang|especially in irc) to catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.

As a noun backhead is

the wall of a steam locomotive's firebox, located in the cab, where the controls are mounted.

backread

English

Verb

  • (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
  • To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge
  • * 1980 , Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud
    • Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.
  • * 2001 , Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices
    • What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.
  • (backread)

    • backhead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia backhead)
  • The wall of a steam locomotive's firebox, located in the cab, where the controls are mounted.