background
— Noun
– English
~ relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
background
— Noun
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~ 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"
background
— Noun
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~ a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
backgrounder
— Noun
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~ a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy; "the secretary gave us a backgrounder on public health issues"
backgrounding
— Noun
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~ the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
backhand
— Verb
– English
~ hit a tennis ball backhand
backhand
— Adjective
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~ (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
backhand
— Adjective
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~ (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward
backhand
— Noun
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~ a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
backhanded
— Adjective
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~ roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
backhanded
— Adjective
– English
~ (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
backhoe
— Noun
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~ an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
backing
— Noun
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~ the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
backing
— Noun
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~ something forming a back that is added for strengthening
backing
— Noun
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~ financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
backlash
— Verb
– English
~ come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"; "the political movie backlashed on the Democrats"
backlash
— Noun
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~ an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"
backlash
— Noun
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~ a movement back from an impact
backless
— Adjective
– English
~ lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat"