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background

/ background /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
Type of:
screen CRT screen
Domain:
computer science computing
noun Sense 2
a person''s social heritage: previous experience or training
"he is a lawyer with a sports background"
Type of:
inheritance heritage
noun Sense 3
information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
"the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
Type of:
information
noun Sense 4
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
"he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
Type of:
view aspect prospect
noun Sense 5
relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
"when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
Type of:
accompaniment concomitant co-occurrence
Derived:
play down downplay
noun Sense 6
extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
"they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
Type of:
noise interference disturbance
Kinds of:
background noise ground noise background radiation
verb Sense 7
understate the importance or quality of
"he played down his royal ancestry"
Opposites:
foreground highlight spotlight play up
Type of:
stress emphasize emphasise
Kinds of:
wave off soft-pedal
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
noun Sense 8
scenery hung at back of stage
Type of:
scenery scene
noun Sense 9
the state of the environment in which a situation exists
"you can''t do that in a university setting"
Type of:
environment
Kinds of:
canvas canvass showcase show window
Semantic Complexity
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Sense Count
9
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
35
Times Searched
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screen CRT screen inheritance heritage information view aspect prospect accompaniment concomitant co-occurrence noise