noun : BACKGROUND
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background" ;
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2. (
) 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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3. (
) 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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4. (
) 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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5. (
) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background" ;
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6. (
) the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting" ;
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7. (
) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear ;
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8. (
) scenery hung at back of stage ;
verb : BACKGROUND
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry" ;
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