Definition of background | What does background mean?
What is the definition of the word BACKGROUND?
Here is a list of definitions for background.
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
- information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
- 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"
- relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- scenery hung at back of stage
What are the verbs of the word BACKGROUND?
Here is a list of definitions for background.
- understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
What are the synonyms of the word BACKGROUND?
What is another word for BACKGROUND?. Here is a list of synonyms for BACKGROUND
Words beginning with BACKGROUND?
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What words can be made with BACKGROUND?
We only list the first 50 results for any words that can be made with BACKGROUND.
In which dictionaries does the word background exist?
English International (SOWPODS) - Yes
English USA (TWL 98) - Yes
English USA (TWL 06) - Yes
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2012) - Yes
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2007) - Yes
Words with Friends (WWF) - Yes
Enable1 (ENABLE1) - Yes
Letterpress (LETTERPRESS) - Yes