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background definition
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Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb background 1 sense of background Sense 1 background, play down => wave off => soft-pedal Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb background 1 sense of background Sense 1 background, play down => wave off => soft-pedal Entailment of verb background Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb background 1 sense of background Sense 1 background, play down => stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate Familiarity of verb background background used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb background Sense 1 background, play down => stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate -------------- Grep of noun background background background knowledge background level background noise background processing background radiation background signal backgrounder backgrounding screen background Overview of noun background The noun background has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (8) background -- (a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background") 2. (6) background, ground -- (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills") 3. (5) background, background knowledge -- (information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident") 4. (2) background, background signal -- (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") 5. (2) background -- (relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background") 6. (1) setting, background, scope -- (the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting") 7. background, desktop, screen background -- ((computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear) 8. backdrop, background, backcloth -- (scenery hung at back of stage) Overview of verb background The verb background has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. background, play down -- (move into the background; "he played down his royal ancestry") Overview of noun background The noun background has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (8) background -- (a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background") 2. (6) background, ground -- (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills") 3. (5) background, background knowledge -- (information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident") 4. (2) background, background signal -- (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") 5. (2) background -- (relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background") 6. (1) setting, background, scope -- (the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting") 7. background, desktop, screen background -- ((computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear) 8. backdrop, background, backcloth -- (scenery hung at back of stage) Overview of verb background The verb background has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. background, play down -- (move into the background; "he played down his royal ancestry")
background definition
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