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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
behind
I.preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be behind/trailing in the polls
▪ At the moment the Democrats are trailing in the polls.
behind enemy lines (=behind the edge of an area that is controlled by an enemy army)
▪ Men from the First Airborne Division were dropped behind enemy lines.
behind the lines
▪ Reinforcements were available just behind the lines.
Behind...facade
Behind her cheerful facade, she’s a really lonely person.
clasp your hands/arms around/behind sth
▪ Fenella leaned forward, clasping her hands around her knees.
close behind
▪ Ronnie sped off, with his brother’s car following close behind.
close behind
▪ James heard footsteps close behind him.
directly in front of/behind/under etc sth
▪ It was a small house, directly behind the church.
fall behind on the payments (also fall behind with the payments British English) (= not make payments when you should)
▪ I’d run up nearly £4,000 in debt, and was beginning to fall behind with the payments.
fall behind with the rent/get behind on the rent (=fail to pay your rent on time)
▪ You could be evicted if you fall behind with the rent.
fall behind with the rent/get behind on the rent (=fail to pay your rent on time)
▪ You could be evicted if you fall behind with the rent.
fallen behind schedule
▪ The project has fallen behind schedule.
fall/get behind with the mortgage (=be unable to pay enough money each month)
▪ He fell behind with the mortgage when he lost his job.
go behind...back (=do something without telling me)
▪ I should have realized that he’d go behind my back.
leave the past behind
▪ It’s time to leave the past behind.
left...far behind
▪ Sarah, with her long legs, soon left the rest of us far behind.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ahead of/behind the curve
ahead of/behind time
▪ Anticipate the problems your client may have with self-monitoring ahead of time, and rehearse strategies to deal with those situations.
▪ Issues such as job assignments and reduced overtime are worked out ahead of time.
▪ It is hard to lay down rules about this ahead of time.
▪ It is important to check this list ahead of time so that you have everything ready to complete the demonstration.
▪ Linear regression, for example, requires all the data to be collected ahead of time and then processed all at once.
▪ Many of them had prepared notes ahead of time, and Drake took lots of notes.
▪ They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.
▪ When you surf to a new Web page, you have no idea ahead of time whether it contains a Java program.
be right behind sb
▪ Although San Marcos may have been the first city in the county to issue such bonds, San Diego was right behind.
▪ And lorry drivers are right behind them, adding their names to a petition.
▪ Babe Connelly was now the boss, and Daley and a few other ambitious young men were right behind him.
▪ He says that the police were right behind them - he begged his brother to stop.
▪ Male speaker I am certain the people of the estates affected by joyriders will be right behind this action.
▪ The feet of Stewpid are right behind me now, pounding louder than my heart beats.
▪ The New Jersey Nets were right behind with a 22 percent rise to $ 41. 62.
▪ The police were right behind, and a cop tackled him, smashing his face into the sidewalk.
be the brains behind/of sth
▪ Bakewell senses that Rudd was the brains behind the fraud, but it was the brothers who were condemned to death.
▪ Builtin computers are the brains behind them.
▪ Maybe it was them who built the fences and he was the brains behind the organization.
be wet behind the ears
behind bars
▪ Almost 3,000 people have been shown what it's like behind bars.
▪ An exercise in black humour set in an enclosed and hopeless world, the film ends with him remaining behind bars.
▪ First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars.
▪ He sputtered up and down the aisle, saying the man should be behind bars.
▪ Louis, Ray has spent most of his adult life behind bars.
▪ More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence, but the rest remain behind bars.
▪ Read in studio Britain's best weightlifters have held a unique training session ... behind bars.
▪ The most widely distributed Shas tract shows a smirking Weizman standing next to a grim-looking Deri behind bars.
behind closed doors
▪ Although America is a democracy, a lot of key decisions are made behind closed doors by unelected advisers.
▪ The board members met behind closed doors to discuss the deal.
▪ And, unlike most other House panels, the ethics committee conducts virtually all of its business behind closed doors.
▪ As the jurors deliberated behind closed doors, the judge huddled with lawyers from both sides in his chambers.
▪ Real's punishment was to play subsequent matches behind closed doors.
▪ Schmoke spent most of his time behind closed doors.
▪ The hearings are behind closed doors, Newsweek says, and it has not discovered the names of the companies implicated.
▪ We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.
behind sb's back
▪ Do you think people are talking about you behind your back?
▪ He agrees with his boss to his face, but then criticizes him behind his back.
▪ His name is Mr McLeod, but his students call him "Big Nose'' behind his back.
▪ I'm not happy about you going behind my back like that. You should have told me.
▪ I'm sure the other girls are talking about me behind my back.
▪ I thought you were my friend. Now I find you've been talking about me behind my back.
▪ People laughed at him behind his back.
behind the scenes
▪ Although he had retired, Brown remained active behind the scenes for years.
▪ But he remained active behind the scenes for years.
▪ Father Peter Vaghi was lobbying behind the scenes to have himself named pastor.
▪ Several sources said Thibadeau is maneuvering behind the scenes to avoid appearances that he is playing a political game.
▪ The tournaments are very popular events and the organisation behind the scenes is always excellent.
▪ This production will feature a combination of new faces and veterans on stage and behind the scenes.
▪ We went behind the scenes for the latest in our series, Inside the Globe.
▪ Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes.
▪ Whoever is stirring it behind the scenes, we have the entire Cabinet to choose from, as well as Landless.
behind the times
▪ Once the giants of British retailing, they are now seen as being behind the times.
▪ People in these parts tend to be way behind the times when it comes to issues such as women's rights.
▪ The company's marketing plan is a little behind the times.
▪ As we went towards the platforms, I said, she's frightened of seeming behind the times.
▪ I was about fifty years behind the times.
▪ New York was not behind the times in strange smells.
▪ Newtonmore is a little quiet; some would say behind the times.
▪ Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times.
▪ We may be the ones 257 who are behind the times.
▪ You're behind the times, Arthur, you're old-fashioned.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
get behind sb
the power behind the throne
throw your weight behind sb/sth
▪ Bahlman is throwing his weight behind the cultural center proposal.
▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.
▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.
throw your weight behind sb/sth
▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.
▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Behind his gruff exterior, she finds a sweet soul.
▪ Gutierrez entered the race with six weeks of solid training behind her.
▪ He sat behind me.
▪ I was driving behind a truck on the freeway.
▪ Is that your shoe behind the couch?
▪ It's interesting to learn the history behind the buildings.
▪ Ronstadt's days as a rock star are behind her, for now.
▪ Surprisingly, Congress appears to be firmly behind the President on this issue.
▪ The Chamber of Commerce is behind this year's annual fund-raising dinner.
▪ the mountains behind the city
▪ The police believe a local gang is behind the killings.
▪ The Rams were 21 points behind the Falcons with only 10 minutes left to play.
▪ What's behind Cooper's opposition to the changes?
II.noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ahead of/behind time
▪ Anticipate the problems your client may have with self-monitoring ahead of time, and rehearse strategies to deal with those situations.
▪ Issues such as job assignments and reduced overtime are worked out ahead of time.
▪ It is hard to lay down rules about this ahead of time.
▪ It is important to check this list ahead of time so that you have everything ready to complete the demonstration.
▪ Linear regression, for example, requires all the data to be collected ahead of time and then processed all at once.
▪ Many of them had prepared notes ahead of time, and Drake took lots of notes.
▪ They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.
▪ When you surf to a new Web page, you have no idea ahead of time whether it contains a Java program.
be right behind sb
▪ Although San Marcos may have been the first city in the county to issue such bonds, San Diego was right behind.
▪ And lorry drivers are right behind them, adding their names to a petition.
▪ Babe Connelly was now the boss, and Daley and a few other ambitious young men were right behind him.
▪ He says that the police were right behind them - he begged his brother to stop.
▪ Male speaker I am certain the people of the estates affected by joyriders will be right behind this action.
▪ The feet of Stewpid are right behind me now, pounding louder than my heart beats.
▪ The New Jersey Nets were right behind with a 22 percent rise to $ 41. 62.
▪ The police were right behind, and a cop tackled him, smashing his face into the sidewalk.
be the brains behind/of sth
▪ Bakewell senses that Rudd was the brains behind the fraud, but it was the brothers who were condemned to death.
▪ Builtin computers are the brains behind them.
▪ Maybe it was them who built the fences and he was the brains behind the organization.
be wet behind the ears
behind bars
▪ Almost 3,000 people have been shown what it's like behind bars.
▪ An exercise in black humour set in an enclosed and hopeless world, the film ends with him remaining behind bars.
▪ First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars.
▪ He sputtered up and down the aisle, saying the man should be behind bars.
▪ Louis, Ray has spent most of his adult life behind bars.
▪ More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence, but the rest remain behind bars.
▪ Read in studio Britain's best weightlifters have held a unique training session ... behind bars.
▪ The most widely distributed Shas tract shows a smirking Weizman standing next to a grim-looking Deri behind bars.
behind closed doors
▪ Although America is a democracy, a lot of key decisions are made behind closed doors by unelected advisers.
▪ The board members met behind closed doors to discuss the deal.
▪ And, unlike most other House panels, the ethics committee conducts virtually all of its business behind closed doors.
▪ As the jurors deliberated behind closed doors, the judge huddled with lawyers from both sides in his chambers.
▪ Real's punishment was to play subsequent matches behind closed doors.
▪ Schmoke spent most of his time behind closed doors.
▪ The hearings are behind closed doors, Newsweek says, and it has not discovered the names of the companies implicated.
▪ We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.
behind sb's back
▪ Do you think people are talking about you behind your back?
▪ He agrees with his boss to his face, but then criticizes him behind his back.
▪ His name is Mr McLeod, but his students call him "Big Nose'' behind his back.
▪ I'm not happy about you going behind my back like that. You should have told me.
▪ I'm sure the other girls are talking about me behind my back.
▪ I thought you were my friend. Now I find you've been talking about me behind my back.
▪ People laughed at him behind his back.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
get behind sb
throw your weight behind sb/sth
▪ Bahlman is throwing his weight behind the cultural center proposal.
▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.
▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.
throw your weight behind sb/sth
▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.
▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Sixo had already melted into the woods before the lash could unfurl itself on his indigo behind.
▪ Craig: Cheryl's not so much always behind as all behind.
▪ I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behind

Behind \Be*hind"\, n. The backside; the rump. [Low]

Behind

Behind \Be*hind"\, adv.

  1. At the back part; in the rear. ``I shall not lag behind.''
    --Milton.

  2. Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

  3. Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.

    We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind.
    --Locke.

  4. Backward in time or order of succession; past.

    Forgetting those things which are behind.
    --Phil. ii. 13.

  5. After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.

    Leave not a rack behind.
    --Shak.

Behind

Behind \Be*hind"\, prep. [AS. behindan; pref. be- + hindan. See Hind, a.]

  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

    A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood.
    --Bp. Hall.

  2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.

    A small part of what he left behind him.
    --Pope.

  3. Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

    I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
    --2 Cor. xi. 5.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
behind

Old English behindan "behind, after," from bi "by" + hindan "from behind" (see hind (adj.)). The prepositional sense emerged in Old English. Euphemistic noun meaning "backside of a person" is from 1786. Phrase behind the times is from 1905. Behind the scenes (1711) is from the theater; figurative sense attested by 1779.

Wiktionary
behind

adv. 1 At the back part; in the rear. 2 Toward the back part or rear; backward. 3 overdue, in arrears. 4 slow; of a watch or clock. 5 exist afterwards 6 Backward in time or order of succession; past. 7 behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage. 8 (context archaic English) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. n. 1 the rear, back-end 2 butt, the buttocks, bottom 3 (context Australian rules football English) A one-point score. 4 (context baseball slang 1800s English) The catcher. 5 In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal). prep. At the back of.

WordNet
behind
  1. n. 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?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, derriere, fanny, ass]

  2. adv. in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"

  3. remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"

  4. of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: slow]

  5. in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"

  6. 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" [syn: behindhand, in arrears]

behind

adj. having the lower score or lagging position in a contest; "behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home team trailing" [syn: behind(p), trailing]

Wikipedia
Behind (disambiguation)

" Behind" is a term for the buttocks.

Behind may also refer to:

  • Behind (album), a 1992 album by Superior
  • Behind (Australian rules football), a method of scoring in Australian rules football, awarding one point
  • "Behind" (song), a 2008 single by Flanders
Behind (song)

"Behind" is name of a 2008 Electronica/Dance single from the Italian Alternative/Electronica group Flanders. The group co-wrote and co-produced the track with producer/remixer Vincenzo Callea, which is their follow up to their 2007 debut single "By Your Side." In the United States, it is by date their best known single, where it spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart, including a 2-week stay at number one in December 2008.

Behind was remixed by ATB for his 2009 album Future Memories. His version was the 3rd single released from that album.

Usage examples of "behind".

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

A certain positive terror grew on me as we advanced to this actual site of the elder world behind the legends--a terror, of course, abetted by the fact that my disturbing dreams and pseudo-memories still beset me with unabated force.

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

Behind the closed gates, I could see that the house was ablaze with light and merriment.

He could feel the points abrading his skin and saw stars for a moment behind his closed lids.

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

Dottie stood up from her hiding place behind an overturned sofa across the room, and made her way across the smashed lights and broken video equipment to his side, absently reloading from her bandoleer.

Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.

Behind that door was evidently the place of moneyed secrets and decisions, and Guil told himself that Aby had been right and this banking thing evidently did work.

He stepped up behind Banish as though they were about to meet Abies in person.

The rotor wash whipped at Abies as the helicopter turned above, then dipped sharply down behind the tree cover and disappeared.

We sat there, furious and not looking at each other, as the acceleration was slowly throttled back and the capsule moved away from the disk to resume its free-flight position two hundred and fifty meters behind it.

Mason conducted Floyt over to a terminal that was set up for a human accessor, behind stacks of peripherals and other equipment.

He had been spotted by some little girls en route to Acequia Madre grade school, who chased the beast into a garage and shut the door behind him.

I highly recommend codeine and acetaminophen for putting your cares behind you.