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background



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

II - verb
understate the importance or quality of
- he played down his royal ancestry
Syn:
play down, downplay
Ant:
play up (for: play down), foreground
Hypernyms:
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
Hyponyms:
wave off, soft-pedal
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

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