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1.
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
he is a lawyer with a sports background
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the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
he posed her against a background of rolling hills
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information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
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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
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relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
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the state of the environment in which a situation exists
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(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
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scenery hung at back of stage
'background' - used as a verb
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understate the importance or quality of
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derived forms
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1. Background / Plural
backgrounds
2. Background / Past
backgrounded
3. Background / Third Person
backgrounds
4. Background / Present Participle
backgrounding
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