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Backrest vs Backest - What's the difference?

backrest | backest |

As a noun backrest

is the back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

As an adjective backest is

superlative of back.

backrest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back

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    backest

    English

    Adjective

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  • (phonetics) (back)
    • Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 56:
  • :: He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx.

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