Midcourt vs Backcourt - What's the difference?
midcourt | backcourt | coordinate terms |
(sports) The area near the center of a court, such as a basketball or tennis court
A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 77:
* 2011 , Brian McHugh, The Guardian , 8 Jan 2011:
(basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Howard Beck, Knicks Will Continue to Be Walsh’s Work in Progress in 2009, New York Times
, passage=So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted backcourt as well. }}
Midcourt is a coordinate term of backcourt.
As nouns the difference between midcourt and backcourt
is that midcourt is (sports) the area near the center of a court, such as a basketball or tennis court while backcourt is a courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.midcourt
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(-)- Smith passes the ball to Jones at midcourt .
backcourt
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(en noun)- Some backcourts had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows.
- Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.
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