background

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  • February 9. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    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"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background noun english

    scenery hung at back of stage

  • March 21. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    background verb english

    understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"