trailing behind
1trailing behind — lagging, being behind the group, following behind …
2Trailing Cone — Trailing cones (or trailing wires as they are often incorrectly called or trailing static cones), were first developed and tested in the 1950 s and 1960 s as a simple means of calibrating the static pressure (altitude reporting) error of an… …
3behind — [adv1/prep1] position farther back; following abaft, after, afterwards, at the heels of*, at the rear of, back of, bringing up the rear*, eating the dust*, in the background, in the wake, later than, next, off the pace, subsequently, trailing;… …
4trailing vortex — noun (aeronautics) The vortex passing from the tips of the main surfaces of an aircraft and extending downstream and behind it • • • Main Entry: ↑trail …
5Trailing wheel — On a steam locomotive, a trailing wheel or trailing axle is an unpowered wheel or axle located behind the driving wheels. The axle of the trailing wheels were usually located on a trailing truck.Trailing wheels were used in some early locomotives …
6Trailing — Trail Trail (tr[=a]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trailing}.] [OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also, to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, F. trailler to trail a fishing line;… …
7trailing phenomenon — Also known as trailing effect and tracers. The first two terms were introduced in or shortly before 1971 by the American psychiatrist and addiction specialist Harvey Asher to denote a visual phenomenon which is associated with the (prior) use… …
8behind — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. rearward, aft, backward; after, subsequently; slow. prep. in back of, following. See rear, lateness, regression, sequence.Ant., ahead. II (Roget s IV) modif. and prep. 1. [To the rear in space] Syn …
9trailing — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. following, behind, endmost, tracking, hunting, swept along, lagging, dawdling, falling behind, crawling, creeping; see also losing 1 . Ant. ahead*, leading, foremost …
10trailing — 1) trawling 2) trolling a fishing line (or trolling line) behind a moving boat. In commercial fisheries a speed of 2 10 knots is used to catch tunas and their relatives …
