English to English
background
('b/&/k,gr/AU/nd
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noun (n)
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training(noun.attribute)Example:
He is a lawyer with a sports background.
source: wordnet30 - the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground(noun.cognition)Example:
He posed her against a background of rolling hills.
source: wordnet30 - information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem(noun.cognition)Example:
The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident.
source: wordnet30 - extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured(noun.event)Example:
They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals.
source: wordnet30 - relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation(noun.event)Example:
When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background.
source: wordnet30 - (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.(noun)source: webster1913