- background - a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
--1 is a kind of inheritance, heritage
- background, ground - the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
--2 is a kind of view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama
- background, background knowledge - information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
--3 is a kind of information
- background, background signal - 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"
--4 is a kind of noise, interference, disturbance
--4 has particulars: background noise, ground noise; background radiation- background - relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
--5 is a kind of accompaniment, concomitant, co-occurrence
Derived form: verb background1 - setting, background, scope - the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"
--6 is a kind of environment
--6 has particulars: canvas, canvass; showcase, show window- background, desktop, screen background - (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
--7 is a kind of screen, CRT screen
- backdrop, background, backcloth - scenery hung at back of stage
--8 is a kind of scenery, scene
- background, ground - the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
- background, play down, downplay - understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
--1 is one way to stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
Antonyms: foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun background5
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something