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Crosswords: BACKGROUND MUSIC |
| Specialty definitions using "BACKGROUND MUSIC": astro-technician, AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICIAN, audiovisual-equipment operator ♦ mood music ♦ PLANETARIUM TECHNICIAN ♦ technical specialist. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | Music, often recorded, intended to provide a soothing background, usually played over loudspeaker systems in public places, as railway stations, restaurants, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Music performed especially by unseen performers as an accompaniment to some activity essentially unrelated to it (as dining, shopping, or factory work). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In motion pictures, radio, etc. , music or sound effects used as a subordinated accompaniment to dialogue or action. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Evil man cackling with organ background music. | Electronic clackety bell sounds heard as background music in horror movies. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "BACKGROUND MUSIC": constant background music. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BACKGROUND MUSIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | musique de fond (background, background sound). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Musikuntermalung, hintergrundmusik (background, background sound), Begleitmusik (walk-in/out music). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, backhand, backing, backless, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex, Vatican). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バックグラウンドミュージック . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackgroundbay usicmay música de fondo (walk-in/out music). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-g-i-k-m-n-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-4 letters: backgrounds. | |
-5 letters: background, buckraming, subkingdom, succouring, succumbing, ungracious. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 43 4B 47 52 4F 55 4E 44      4D 55 53 49 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01001101 01010101 01010011 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A C K G R O U N D   M U S I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0043 004B 0047 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044      004D 0055 0053 0049 0043 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635374541524955483824755534337 |
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