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Meaning of behind

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  behind
      adv 1: 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"
      2: 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"
      3: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch
         is running behind" [syn: {behind}, {slow}]
      4: in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his
         studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the
         competition for customers"
      5: 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: {behind}, {behindhand}, {in arrears}]
      adj 1: having the lower score or lagging position in a contest;
             "behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home
             team trailing"
      n 1: 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},
           {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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