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List of meaning for background

the area or scenery behind the main object of focus

background(noun)

a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

"he is a lawyer with a sports background"

background, ground(noun)

the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

"he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

background, background knowledge(noun)

information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

"the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

background, background signal(noun)

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"

background(noun)

relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

"when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

setting, background, scope(noun)

the state of the environment in which a situation exists

"you can't do that in a university setting"

background, desktop, screen background(noun)

(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

backdrop, background, backcloth(verb)

scenery hung at back of stage

background, play down, downplay(verb)

understate the importance or quality of

"he played down his royal ancestry"

the physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed

they got married on a mountain top with the sunset as background

the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set

the background of that movie is the World War II era

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