(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.
Undeveloped
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
(2) Although the intellectual base of nursing is believed to be patient care, the role of clinical field studies in master of nursing programs is unstructured and undeveloped.
(3) Birds with undeveloped ovaries (immature), developed ovaries but not laying (mature), and after laying 3-8 eggs (laying), were used in the first series.
(4) The lower clearances in infant and young rats were considered to be caused by the undeveloped liver function to metabolize phenytoin.
(5) The FR 30 cells had irregular shapes and sizes; the amount of undeveloped rough endoplasmic reticulum and the number of lysosomes were increased.
(6) The result was not satisfactory in some cases with the undeveloped oval window.
(7) Further evaluation and more systematic studies are greatly needed in order to sensitize professionals and society at large to the undeveloped potential of the retarded and their response to this form of intervention.
(8) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
(9) A population survey was therefore carried out to determine the prevalence of hypertension and cardiac murmurs in a random sample of people aged 25-64 years living in an undeveloped rural area.
(10) Survival of eggs of O. ostertagi and C. oncophora was evaluated by incubation for 24 hours at 20 degrees C of thoroughly washed, treated eggs followed by microscopic examination and differentiation into developed or undeveloped eggs.
(11) The present status of the undeveloped branch of high-performance immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (HPIMAC) is reviewed.
(12) The developing nations, with all their differences, face strikingly similar problems in administration and nursing administration in particular: emphasis on tertiary hospitals, top-down hierarchies, undeveloped human resources, lack of high performance systems, lack of infrastructures for health service delivery, ineffective rural-urban links.
(13) These results suggest that lateral inhibitory processes may be relatively undeveloped or receptive fields do not develop to be as small as those of normal adults.
(14) In view of these results, partially fractionated reticulocyte lysates were tested for restoration of protein-synthetic activity in the undeveloped embryo lysate.
(15) Supranuclear gaze palsies characteristic of type 3 were noted from early childhood, although the major signs were undeveloped until early adult life.
(16) The purpose of the meeting was to explore the undeveloped research opportunities in the area of marine biology for the advancement of our understanding of human health problems and to provide information on the current status of marine biology laboratories.
(17) Since active inflammatory trachoma in childhood responds to tetracyclines, erythromycin, and sulphonamides the disease should be attacked in those undeveloped rural areas where it continues to lead to blindness.
(18) Abnormal findings such as deficits, undevelopment and metamorphosis, in the shape, size and configuration of nerve cells, myelin sheaths and vessels in consecutive transverse sections stained by Nissl and Klüver-Barrera method were not evident on examination under light microscope, and in cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin sheaths, synaptic complexes of nerve cell, neuroglia and vessels in the cerebral cortex, under electron microscope.
(19) Total mortality was 25.2%; in most of the fatal cases (90.6%) the fistulas were undeveloped.
(20) Sellar, it was widely assumed, would then sell the undeveloped site for a large profit.