What's the difference between behind and outstrip?

Behind


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.
  • (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.
  • (adv.) At the back part; in the rear.
  • (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.
  • (adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
  • (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.
  • (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.
  • (n.) The backside; the rump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (3) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (4) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (5) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (6) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (7) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (8) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (9) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (10) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (11) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (12) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
  • (13) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
  • (14) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (15) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (16) We report a case of tamponade due to an effusion of blood which had occurred two weeks after an aorto-coronary bypass and was unusually located behind the left atrium.
  • (17) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (18) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
  • (19) The principles behind the operation of this closed-loop system, an some alternative designs that simplify the implant procedure, are described here.
  • (20) The possible mechanisms behind the oscillations are discussed.

Outstrip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
  • (2) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
  • (3) Four children have sickle-cell anaemia, two sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, one has sickle-cell thalassaemia, and one is asymptomatic haemoglobin C thalassaemia.It is emphasized that the contribution that adult sickle-cell disease patients make, through procreation, to the persistence of the S gene may be greater than is normally supposed, and that this contribution may soon outstrip that made by balanced polymorphism through falciparum malaria.
  • (4) The film became Allen's highest-grossing in North America ever, outstripping Hannah and Her Sisters.
  • (5) The public sector will buy a lot of that technology at first (52% of the market over the next 10 years), but private sector customers will outstrip public sector buyers of space-based IP in the longer term, it said.
  • (6) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
  • (7) Green organisations – who, if conservation groups such as the National Trust are included, boast a combined membership of millions, far outstripping any political party – are gearing up for that fight.
  • (8) The headline rate of annual pay growth looks set to have outstripped consumer price index inflation in February.
  • (9) In London and the south-east, house price growth has outstripped wages and the lower costs of living, making it more difficult to buy.
  • (10) Many will remain trapped in their parents' homes as property prices continue to outstrip earnings, warns the NHF.
  • (11) The prevalence of these conditions outstrips the medical profession's efficiency and effectiveness in dealing with them.
  • (12) Apple has delayed the international launch of its iPad computer for a month, blaming "surprisingly strong US demand" that has outstripped its ability to produce them.
  • (13) The demand for qualified nurses continues to outstrip the existing and anticipated supply.
  • (14) Unfortunately, as demand went up, the number of organic producers and the acreage of organic farms declined, leading to fears that soon demand would outstrip supply.
  • (15) The government did not publish the overall domestic security budget, which has outstripped military spending in recent years.
  • (16) But now 86% of the world’s population lives in countries where the demands made on nature - the nation’s “ecological footprint” - outstrip what that country’s resources can cope with.
  • (17) The very day after the PM pledged to back HS3, London mayor Boris Johnson announced that the Treasury had pledged to half-fund Crossrail 2 – at a price far outstripping the sums designated for the trans-Pennine links.
  • (18) Since pay growth only started to outstrip inflation again at the end of last year – after six years in which the real value of wages fell by about 8% – household finances remain on Labour’s side .
  • (19) When the latest GDP figures appear next month, the UK could outstrip the US, which has propped up the world economy since the financial crash of 2008.
  • (20) A more significant factor in the therapeutic advantage of KLH conjugation could be that immunization with BCL1 IgM-KLH led to an earlier induction of the anti-idiotypic response than immunization with BCL1 IgM and, as the BCL1, lymphoma divides rapidly, the speed of induction of the immune response may be important in outstripping tumor cell growth.