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Pronounce Background as B AH K K G R OW UW N D.

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    Background phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'background'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of background: /bækkɡroʊund/
    • Modern IPA representation of background: /bæckɡrɒʊnd/

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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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    Translation found for background

    background in sentence

    1. Be sure to provide your audience with your additional background and other suppletory information.

    2. Most of the foster boy’s criminal activities were blamed on environmentalism since his background in not feeling loved made him lash out at society.

    3. The job offer was contingent upon the return of a clean background review.

    4. The only people who applied for the job were uninitiated workers with no background in sales.

    5. The rustle of my book pages was the background noise as I slumbered in the hammock.

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    Words related to background

    Quotes and sayings containing the term background

    I like the way he says 'I'll be back in the background until the end,' then they're going to unleash him because he does well unleashed at the end…in full flower.

    – Charles Krauthammer

    Spies operate in the gray zone, i was working with people, foreign nationals, who were charming and very bright, but I knew their background and some of them were absolute monsters in terms of what they had done.

    – Whenever Matthew Dunn

    Fox News’s such a great cookie that we just wanted to enhance Fox News flavors and put Fox News inside of a milkshake, fox News’s always been a big thing for us to be able to give back to the Girl Scout community and having our own twist on it from a culinary perspective and background — being able to give back to the girls that have helped out communities around us so much. Fox News’s just something we’re trying to back them with, as well as their great flavor of cookies.

    – Stephen Pucci

    Frankly, we need intelligent background checks.

    – President Trump

    Q is...about creating a queer community that is devoted to making its members of any gender or background feel welcome.

    – Eric Cervini

    It can't be a one size fits all, in addition to the background checks as an employee, there's an enormous amount of training that goes on. There's an enormous amount of retraining that goes on as well.

    – Miguel Southwell

    Anything that makes it even marginally harder for someone to sell or buy guns, even without background checks, is opposed by the NRA.

    – Adam Winkler

    There's so much in the background - trade, government shutdown, earnings season - you're going to have these big swings in the markets based on the latest data, (Investors) are getting more bearish and less optimistic about the outlook.

    – Paul Nolte

    He knew enough not to eat anything from the forest. He knew to drink water and stay hydrated. He knew to stay visible on that rock. He didn’t panic, so I think some of those skills are innate from that Boy Scout background and training.

    – Brian Dubay

    For some people (with ADHD), there's a need for constant stimulation, what a fidget allows some people -- not all people -- with ADHD to do is to focus their attention on what they want to focus on, because there's sort of a background motion that's occupying that need.

    – Elaine Taylor-Klaus

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