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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



... Boy, who is a little older (and already knows enough to place the responsibility for intrusion on his sister with her innocent eyes and imperturbable calm and golden hair), stood a little in the background, pretending to be engrossed with a magnet, as though he were unaware that he was really present. Curls hopped about on one leg frankly, knowing that the others would be blamed for any naughtiness of hers. Her radiant impudence never needs ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson
... and were glistening in purity from their feet to their white beards. Still higher, in the scenes of the tympanum, the outlines of the little saints of the arches were designed most clearly on a dark background, and this magic sect continued until the final rapture at the marriage of Agnes, which the archangels appeared to be celebrating under a shower of white roses. Standing upon her pillar, with her white branch of palm and her white lamp, ...
— The Dream • Emile Zola
... its situation, the small city of Antibes is at once a type of the old regime and of the new. Lying on the sea, with a background of snow-capped mountains, it has not entirely escaped the fate of Nice; neither has it yet lost all its old Provencal characteristics. It is a pathetic compromise between the quaint reality of the old and ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... upon which they could re-appear in the arena of National politics. It had been suggested to them from friendly sources that while the memory of their part in the bloody strife was still so fresh it would be prudent for them to remain in the background, but they vigorously resented this proposed exclusion. General Forrest of Tennessee published an indignant letter, in which he referred to "the counsel of timid men" that those who had prominently borne the ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... pretty picture framed in the doorway. She wore her riding-habit of olive-green—from the hem of which peeped her soft boots. Her hat, broad, picturesque, typical of the Southwest, had slipped backward, forming a background for her pretty face. An amused smile played about ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller


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