Crossword clues for behind
behind
- Responsible for what's inside fuse
- Bow to convey greeting — backside becomes visible!
- Insect almost settling on deer's backside
- He turns up in tie, late
- Taking place in secret
- In support of
- In back of
- Not in the lead
- __ schedule (late)
- Rear — losing
- Needing a rally
- Late, as in making payments
- Getting beaten
- At the rear of
- ___ the scenes
- ___ closed doors (in private)
- Begin to run out of time for offering aid
- At the back of this newspaper, out of date
- With 71-Down, in secret
- After
- Lagging
- With 10- and 65-Across, 1971 hit by the Who
- Abandoned
- The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Not making one's quota
- Hidden by
- In arrears
- Adverb applying to a caboose
- Supporting
- Losing
- Old-fashioned bum paper
- Supporting that man with no money in Bow
- Serving time
- Husband's at home, tucked in bed - it's late
- Running late
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behind \Be*hind"\, n. The backside; the rump. [Low]
Behind \Be*hind"\, adv.
At the back part; in the rear. ``I shall not lag behind.''
--Milton.Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.
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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. -
Backward in time or order of succession; past.
Forgetting those things which are behind.
--Phil. ii. 13. -
After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.
Leave not a rack behind.
--Shak.
Behind \Be*hind"\, prep. [AS. behindan; pref. be- + hindan. See Hind, a.]
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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. -
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.
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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
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
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
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]
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"
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"
of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: slow]
in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
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]
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" 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" 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.