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background
Definition of background (English)
noun
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a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- he is a lawyer with a sports background
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the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- he posed her against a background of rolling hills
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information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
- the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
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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
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relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
- when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
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the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- you can't do that in a university setting
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(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appearsumber: wordnet30
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scenery hung at back of stagesumber: wordnet30
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Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.sumber: webster1913
verb
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understate the importance or quality of
- he played down his royal ancestry
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