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Background   /bˈækgrˌaʊnd/   Listen
Background

noun
1.
A person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
2.
The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.  Synonym: ground.
3.
Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.  Synonym: background knowledge.
4.
Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured.  Synonym: background signal.
5.
Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation.
6.
The state of the environment in which a situation exists.  Synonyms: scope, setting.
7.
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear.  Synonyms: desktop, screen background.
8.
Scenery hung at back of stage.  Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop.
verb
1.
Understate the importance or quality of.  Synonyms: downplay, play down.



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"Background" Quotes from Famous Books



... door, followed by the professor, he peered cautiously out, to confront a desolate stretch of scrubby growth, hemmed in by a background ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... instance, papered with a paper with a dark background and a light pattern on it. Well, you can manoeuvre your eye about so as either to look at the black background—and then it is all black, with only a little accidental white or gilt to relieve it here and there; or you can focus your eye on the white and gold, and then ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... public life stretched over so long a period that to write a full historical memoir of him within the limited space of this volume is impossible. All that can be attempted is to present a sketch of the man with a few of his more prominent surroundings against a very meagre and insufficient background of the history of the times. So it may be permissible to begin with a general outline of his figure, to be filled in, shaded, and colored as we proceed. At best our task is much more difficult of ...
— John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen Series • John. T. Morse
... exultant joy in the mountain sunset, and his abounding health (which filled his heart with the buoyancy of a boy)—all these causes combined to revive emotions which his absorption in scientific investigation had set in the background—emotions which concern the common man, but which the deeply ambitious chemist, eager to discover the chemical molecular structure of the plasm, must put aside ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... to whatever task arrives, greedy for the work, like one who lusts in the delight of seeing tasks accomplished. But he is trusted by all, both sides agreeing to rest on his decisions, all realising that personal feeling is put far into the background of his mind when the interests of new ...
— My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard • Elizabeth Cooper


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