English noun: background |
1. | background (attribute) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training |
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| Samples | He is a lawyer with a sports background.
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| Broader (hypernym) | heritage, inheritance |
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2. | background (cognition) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground |
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| Samples | He posed her against a background of rolling hills.
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| Synonyms | ground |
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| Broader (hypernym) | aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
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3. | background (cognition) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem |
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| Samples | The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident.
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| Synonyms | background knowledge |
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| Broader (hypernym) | information |
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4. | background (event) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured |
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| Samples | They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals.
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| Synonyms | background signal |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disturbance, interference, noise |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | background noise, background radiation, ground noise |
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5. | background (event) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation |
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| Samples | When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background.
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| Broader (hypernym) | accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
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6. | background (state) the state of the environment in which a situation exists |
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| Samples | You can't do that in a university setting.
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| Synonyms | scope, setting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | environment |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | canvas, canvass, show window, showcase |
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7. | background (artifact) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
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| Synonyms | desktop, screen background |
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| Broader (hypernym) | CRT screen, screen |
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| Domain category | computer science, computing |
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8. | background (artifact) scenery hung at back of stage |
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| Synonyms | backcloth, backdrop |
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| Broader (hypernym) | scene, scenery |
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