{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "bɪˈhaɪnd" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/behind.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/behind.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/behind.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/behind.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "At or to the back or far side of.\nThe children were hiding behind the wall.\nThe sun went behind the clouds.\nLook behind you!\n1879, R J, chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window , and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.\n2013 July 19, Garton Ash, Timothy, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.\nSynonyms: (US) in back of, to the rear of, (Chester) a-back\nAntonym: in front of", "submean": [ "(figuratively) Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).\nBehind the smile was a cruel intention.", "(figuratively) In the past, from the viewpoint of.\nAll my problems are behind me." ] }, { "mean": "Less forward or advanced than; after.\nAntonym: ahead of", "submean": [ "After in physical progress or distance.\nSmith finished the race a lap behind the others.\n1883, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island:About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed — I tethered by my rope .", "After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.\nI'm ranked sixth in the French class, behind five other pupils.\nIn the cricket match, England are 120 runs behind India.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:5:For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.", "After in time.\nLondon is nine hours behind Tokyo." ] }, { "mean": "Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.\nWho is behind these terrorist attacks?\nMr Jones was the man behind the redevelopment plan." }, { "mean": "Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.\nWhat is behind this unexpected decision?" }, { "mean": "In support of.\nThe republicans are fully behind their candidate." }, { "mean": "(nonstandard, US, slang) As a result or consequence of.\n2012, DeShawn Dorsey, Longsuffering Through Emotional Wounds, page 40:He was like, 'Fuck the police! Fuck you! You know who I am, you gonna quit playing with me, bitch.' I'm like let's go. 'Cause I wasn't trying to go to jail behind that shit." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "At or in the rear or back part of something.\nThe water flows out through the pipe, and the sediment collects behind." }, { "mean": "In a rearward direction.\nWe ran and ran, without once looking behind." }, { "mean": "So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.\nThe slower runners were left a long way behind.\nIn the cricket match, England finished a long way behind.\nThe worst thing about autumn is that winter follows behind.\n1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:I shall not lag behind." }, { "mean": "So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.\nI couldn't be bothered to carry the ironing board, so I left it behind.\nHe stayed behind after the war.\nHe left behind a legacy of death and sorrow.\nThe island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.\n1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind." }, { "mean": "Backward in time or order of succession; past.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Philippians 3:13: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before" }, { "mean": "Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.\n1890, Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 68:‘After the performance was over I went behind, and spoke to her.’" }, { "mean": "(archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.\n1689 (indicated as 1690), , chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC, book I, page 16:We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Not advanced to the required or expected degree; overdue or in arrears.\nI'm very behind in my schedule.\nMy employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary." }, { "mean": "(of a watch or clock) Slow.\nMy watch is behind by four minutes." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The rear, back-end.\nThis part fits under the behind of the vehicle.\nShe sneaked up on me from behind." }, { "mean": "(informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.\nI was stung on the behind by a wasp.\n2010, Mary Roach, “One Furry Step for Mankind: The Strange Careers of Ham and Enos”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 158:\"So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?\" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says \"behind\", as in \"I have a picture where he bit me in the behind.\" The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra.\n2011 December 12, Alyssa Newcomb, “Sit, Stay, Aim, Fire. Dog Shoots Another Hunter”, in ABC News‎, archived from the original on 25 October 2021:\"The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the in the buttocks,\" Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident." }, { "mean": "(Australian rules football) A one-point score.\n1880, “The Opening Ball”, in G. Lehmann, editor, Comic Australian Verse, 1975, quoted in G. A. 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