Backing and Setting

Backing

Backing noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Setting and backing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Backing".

Nearby Words: back, background, backer, backup, backed

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Backing and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backing" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

live	live backing	live setting
good	good backing	good setting
full	full backing	full setting
usual	usual backing	usual setting
Other adjectives: current, initial, actual, entire, major, military, official, basic, different, magical.

He does so — by backing it forcefully into a parking barrier, setting off many car alarms.

Source: Film / Casino Royale (2006)
The New World of Darkness is not a setting where the guileless rise above the rest, not without backing from more cunning people.

Source: Fantasy Axis of Evil
Shown Their Work: The science presented in the game is some of the most sound in Science Fiction - even the Frame-Shift Drive, the setting's One Big Lie, has some amount of scientific theory backing it up.

Source: Videogame / Elite: Dangerous

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