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background
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
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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