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US
/bɪˈhaɪnd/
]
[ UK /bɪhˈaɪnd/ ]
[ UK /bɪhˈaɪnd/ ]
ADVERB
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in debt
he fell behind with his mortgage payments
a month behind in the rent
a company that has been run behindhand for years
in arrears with their utility bills -
in or into an inferior position
their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers
fell behind in his studies -
of timepieces
my watch is running behind
the clock is almost an hour slow -
in or to or toward the rear
seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front
he followed behind
the final runners were far behind -
remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from
left a large family behind
when he died he left much unfinished work behind
he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind
the children left their books behind
ADJECTIVE
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having the lower score or lagging position in a contest
the 8th inning found the home team trailing
behind by two points
NOUN
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the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
How To Use behind In A Sentence
- The fin's origin is relatively far behind the pelvic fin insertion.
- He said nothing as he took his horse's reins and mounted up, the pain causing sparks to flash behind his eyes and his vision to fuzz a little around the edges.
- The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil (nimbostratus) with a little fractus in the foreground.
- Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
- Due to the bad weather, the building work was already behind schedule.
- Lee waved down the server behind the counter, who seemed to have been engulfed in conversation with one of the two men seated next to us.
- There was a little portable television switched on behind the bar.
- One of a phases is a brand new SSC, though there is a lot happening behind a scenes. Student development student staff meeting june 23rd 2009
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
- ‘Behind the scenes there are still a number of points that deserve attention,’ the unidentified official said, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.