Lexic.us

Definition of Background

1. Noun. A person's social heritage: previous experience or training. "He is a lawyer with a sports background"

2. Verb. Understate the importance or quality of. "He played down his royal ancestry"

3. Noun. The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground. "He posed her against a background of rolling hills"

4. Noun. Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem. "The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

5. Noun. 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"

6. Noun. Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation. "When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

7. Noun. The state of the environment in which a situation exists. "You can't do that in a university setting"

8. Noun. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear.

9. Noun. Scenery hung at back of stage.

Definition of Background

1. n. Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

Definition of Background

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Background

backfits backfitted backfitting backflip backflipped backflipping backflips backflow backflow backflowing

backflows backflushing backgammon backgammons backgammon board background (current term) backgrounded backgrounder backgrounders backgrounding

backgrounds background knowledge background level background level background noise background processing background radiation background radiation background retinopathy background signal

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