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Definition: Background |
BackgroundNoun1. A person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background". 2. The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills". 3. Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident". 4. 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". 5. Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background". 6. The state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting". 7. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear. 8. Scenery hung at back of stage. Verb1. Move into the background; "he played down his royal ancestry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "background" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Background \Back"ground`\, noun. [Back, adjective. ground.]. (references) |
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Computing | Background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attention, and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority. "For now, we'll just print a list of nodes and links; I'm working on the graph-printing problem in background." Note that this implies ongoing activity but at a reduced level or in spare time, in contrast to mainstream `back burner' (which connotes benign neglect until some future resumption of activity). Some people prefer to use the term for processing that they have queued up for their unconscious minds (a tack that one can often fruitfully take upon encountering an obstacle in creative work). Compare amp off, slopsucker. Technically, a task running in background is detached from the terminal where it was started (and often running at a lower priority); oppose foreground. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {Unix, but it appears to have been first used in this sense on OS/360. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | Any effect in a sensor or other apparatus or system above which the phenomenon of interest must manifest itself before it can be observed. See background counts, background noise. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The counting rate in the absence of that radiation which the counter tube is intended to measure. Source: European Union. (references) |
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) | |
Literature | Background Placed in the background, i.e. made of no consequence. Pictures have three distances, called grounds: the foreground, where the artist is supposed to be; the middle ground, where the most salient part of the picture is placed, and the background or distance, beyond which the eye cannot penetrate. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The abundance of an element, or any chemical property of a naturally occurring material, in an area in which the concentration is not anomalous b. The slight radioactivity shown by a counter, due to normal radioactivity from cosmic rays, impurities in the counter, and traceamounts of radioactivity in the vicinity. (references) |
Physics | The controllable brightness of the receiver screen in the absence of the part of the television signal which conveys the picture information. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In astronomy, background commonly refers to the incoming light from an apparently empty part of the night sky.Even if no visible astronomical objects are present in given part of the sky, there always is some low luminosity present, due mostly to light diffusion from the atmosphere (diffusion of both incoming light from nearby sources, and of man-made Earth sources like cities). In the visible band, luminosity level is around the 25th magnitude: a very low level, but anyway well within the limits of the current generation of telescopes. The HST space telescope does not suffer from this problem.
In infrared astronomy, the problem can be much worse: due to the longer wavelengths involved, the sky and the telecope themselves are a source of light! To work around this problem, infrared telescopes often use a technique called tilting, where a mirror rapidly oscillates between the object of interest and the nearby, empty sky. The two images can be subtracted, leaving hopefully only the incoming light from the source.
In astronomical CCD technology, background is usually referred to the overall optical "noise" of the system, that is, the incoming light on the CCD sensor in absence of light sources. This background can originate from electronic noise in the CCD, from not-well-masked lights nearby the telescope, and so on. An exposure on an empty patch of the sky is also called a background, and is the sum of the system background level plus the sky's one.
A background frame is often the first exposure in an astronomical observation with a CCD: the frame will then be subtracted from the actual observation result, leaving in theory only the incoming light from the astronomical object being observed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Background (astronomy)."
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The background, in the context of computer software, refers in general to processes that are run with a relatively low priority, require little or no input, and generate a minimum of output.Background processes can roughly be divided into two categories: daemons and compute-intensive tasks.
Daemon processes offer services like web pages serving, email transferring, time synchronization, and similar. They usually consume little CPU and memory, and run quietly without user interaction. They mainly communicate with other computer programs, or with other computers via network.
The background is also used for long tasks that require huge amount of computation and thus CPU time. Running this kind of task at low priority may seem counterintuitive, but it becomes clearer when one considers that a computer typically spends more than 90% of its time waiting for user input. One can assign a high priority to interactive tasks, that will appear highly responsive, and leave the majority of the time to low priority tasks.
See also: Scheduling.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Background (computer software)."
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Background can refer to:
- Background (computer software)
- Background (astronomy)
- Cosmic microwave background
- Background radiation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Background (disambiguation)."
Synonyms: BackgroundSynonyms: backcloth (n), backdrop (n), background knowledge (n), background signal (n), desktop (n), ground (n), scope (n), screen background (n), setting (n), play down (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: backgrounding (politics & international affaires). |
| Antonym: foreground (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Verb: blend in, blend into the background. |
Calefaction | Cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa; acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium. |
Concealment | Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore. |
Januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine. | |
Background information, deep background information, deep background; background session, backgrounder; not for attribution | |
Disrepute | Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away. |
Obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance. | |
Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. | |
Distance | Noun: distance; space; remoteness, farness, far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride. |
Latency Implication | Unapparent, unknown, unseen; in the background; invisible; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable; (unintelligible); unspied, unsuspected. |
Adverb: by a side wind; sub silentio; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly; between the lines. | |
Modesty | Keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, " do good by stealth and blush to find it fame ", hide one's light under a bushel, cast a sheep's eye. |
Rear | Noun: rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland. |
Adverb: behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back. | |
Seclusion Exclusion | Verb: be secluded, live secluded; Adjective: keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak. |
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Screenplays | It's the weird color-scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) I don't know much about your background. (Switch; writing credit: Glen A. Larson) Last night, I dreamed about something - not Diane! Well, she was in the background chattering on about something, naked, but the important thing is, I was a therapist again (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Are you referring to the background score (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Lets get something straight here doctor, I've been thirty years in the business in tracking people down and putting them away, I spend almost six years alone on the case of Curt Duncan with the trials and the testifying and the background investigations (When a Stranger Calls; writing credit: Steve Feke; Fred Walton) | |
Lyrics | Of the kids laughing in the background (I'm Already There; performing artist: Lonestar) Mr. Big is in the background (One Of Those Days; performing artist: Whitney Houston; writing credit: Kevin Briggs, Patrice Stewart, Dwight Reynolds, Ernest Isley, Marvin Isley, Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Christopher Jasper, Warren Zevon & David Lindell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Background (1973) Klute in New York: A Background for Suspense (1971) The Background Beat (1965) Background to Federation (1958) Circular Panorama of the Esplanade with the Electric Tower in the Background (1901) | |
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 | Seen are three bottles of interferon on a black background. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Various members of a family can be seen in a garden setting picking beans. In the background a farm house and the mountains can be seen. It is a summer day. These people are members of a large Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Sheep at Glencolumkille, County Donegal, Ireland. Atlantic Ocean in background. Credit: CDC. |  | Acropolis at Lindos, Island of Rhodes, Greece. Mediterranean Sea in background. Credit: CDC. |
 | Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across ... Credit: NASA. |  | Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being refurbished during the STS 61 flight.Astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman are seen during the last of the five EVAs. Australia's west coast can be seen in the background. Credit: NASA. |
 | Packing up Lookout Mountain - Mt. Hood in background Astro crew of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Coast Survey sounding operations in Strawberry Harbor Coast Survey Ship FAUNTLEROY in background Watercolor by James Madison Alden, nephew of Lieutenant James Alden Lt. Alden commanded the Coast Survey Steamer ACTIVE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A Danish windwill ruin at sunset on the northeast end of St. Croix. Buck Island Reef National Monument is in the background. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | 2 osprey - Pandion haliaetus - on nest and gulls in the background lining the jetty at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Tech background" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A tech background provided by the interior of a washing machine. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." | "Opened book" by Bartlomiej Moczulski Commentary: "Just an opened book (it's Lewis Caroll complete works if anybody asks ;-). Background easy to be cut off (hopefully)." |
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 | Arpeggiated guitar with solo guitar and light strings in background. | | Ambient texture with repetitive keyboard line and metallic bells in background. |
| 6/8 rhythm emphasized in percussion with wailing cries in background. | | Guitar melody with hollow synthesized notes in the background as accompaniment. |
| Congas, electric bass, and background keyboards played in a medium tempo. | | A repetitive metallic melody with ray gun style tones in background. |
| Arpeggiated keyboard chords creating a minimal style with congas in background. | | Medium-pitched drum played with machine sounds in the background. |
| Parrot calling with other birds tweeting in the background. | | Evil man cackling with organ background music. |
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John Locke | The discipline of desire is the background of character. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | This development has, in its time, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The following day brought news from Richmond to throw every thing else into the background. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This ray of light was an evil star in the black background of the door and the wall |
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Health | It allows you to listen at a comfortable volume and helps lessen background noise. (references) | |
Conversations are difficult to understand, especially when there is background noise. (references) | ||
Their color is variegated, ranging from tan to dark brown often on a pink background. (references) | ||
Business | The management contract then goes to a haulage company with no background in waste management. (references) | |
The following analysis provides a detailed description of the above-summarized situation and its background. (references) | ||
Executives and shopkeepers, not necessarily from the same professional/sectoral background, are very attractive to franchisers. (references) | ||
Children | United Kingdom | Various laws covering England and Wales stipulate that children have the right to apply for court orders, to give or withhold consent for medical treatment (for those capable of making an informed decision), to make complaints to the relevant local authority, to have their ethnic, linguistic, and religious background considered in decisions affecting them, to have reasonable contact with their families (usually applied in a circumstance where there was abuse), and in general to be consulted regarding their desires. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Czech Republic | There is one full-time anchorman of Ghanaian background on TV Nova, but no Roma occupy such positions. (references) |
Malaysia | That same month, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah instructed the Religious Affairs Department to conduct background checks on religious speakers. (references) | |
Discrimination | France | Statutes ban discrimination based on race, religion, sex, ethnic background, or political opinion, and in general the Government effectively enforces them. (references) |
Romania | The Constitution forbids discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, opinion and political allegiance, wealth, or social background; however, in practice the Government does not enforce these provisions effectively, and women, Roma, and other minorities are subject to various forms of discrimination. (references) | |
Italy | The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex (except with regard to hazardous work), religion, ethnic background, or political opinion, and provides some protection against discrimination based on disability, language, or social status; however, some societal discrimination against women, persons with disabilities, and Roma persisted. (references) | |
Economic History | Tunisia | Flag: Red star on a red crescent in a white circle centered on a red background. (references) |
Marshall Islands | Flag: Deep blue background with two rays, one orange and one white, and a 24-point star. (references) | |
Germany | Market Briefs: Background and basic information on exporting agricultural products to Germany. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Often those relocated are selected on the basis of family background. (references) |
Cuba | Prosecutors may introduce testimony from a CDR member about the revolutionary background of a defendant, which may contribute to either a longer or shorter sentence. (references) | |
Korea | Nonetheless, there is some evidence that class background is less important than in the past because of the regime's emphasis on the solidarity of the "popular masses," and united front efforts with overseas Koreans. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | A special team was established in Jakarta to lobby Parliament and the administration and explain the intent and background of the Papuan Special Autonomy Law. (references) |
Minorities | Mauritius | An individual's name easily identifies his or her ethnic and religious background. (references) |
Nicaragua | Most citizens are of mixed background, and ethnicity is not a barrier to political or economic success. (references) | |
Political Economy | Djibouti | Discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and clan background persisted. (references) |
Korea | In 1992, Koreans elected Kim Young-Sam, the first president in over thirty years without a military background. (references) | |
Guyana | Guyana is a racially diverse society, but political affiliation is largely (although not entirely) based on ethnic background. (references) | |
Political Rights | Morocco | The Interior Minister has been replaced twice since then, and the current Minister, Driss Jettou, has a background in business and finances, rather than in security. (references) |
Oman | The Government's selection criteria reportedly was based on tribal and social status; educational background; personal and professional connections; and loyalty to the Government. (references) | |
Trade | Israel | Marking details should be clear, legible and in a different color from the background in order to be clearly distinguishable. (references) |
Travel | New Zealand | Applicants must demonstrate that they have the background, ability, skills, and investment capital for their proposed business venture. (references) |
Singapore | Many Singapore business people are of ethnic Chinese background, and many of them will have "Christian" first names (e.g., Nancy Goh, Jeannie Sim). (references) | |
Dominican Rep | Travelers are encouraged to read the Consular Information Sheet and Background Notes for the Dominican Republic located on the State Department website (United States.ww.state.gov). (references) | |
Worker Rights | South Africa | Several ANC members of Parliament and of the Cabinet have a COSATU leadership background, and the premier of Gauteng, the country's richest province, is a former COSATU general secretary. (references) |
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Barry Manilow | The best, and the studio singers, the background singers taught me how to do harmonies, how to sound different. It was a great three-year learning experience. It was college for me. |
Mariah Carey | I think he's a great guy, I really do. And I really, really love his family. They really taught me something special, because coming from an interracial background, you know, you had the same type of background exactly. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Because of copyright reasons we cannot publish all texts that are available on the internet in our own format, which would allow us to provide links to relevant background material for the letters. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Certain tendencies are, however, fairly clear and recognition of them should serve as background for the consideration of next year's Federal Program. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The potent new threat from an advancing Soviet Union, against the background of regional instability of which it can take advantage, requires that we reinforce our ability to defend our regional friends and to protect the flow of oil. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have members in this Congress from virtually every racial, ethnic, and religious background. |
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| "Background" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Background" is used about 6,164 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 6,163 | 1,581 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,164 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "background": academic background ♦ against this background ♦ as a background of ♦ background count ♦ background din ♦ background figure ♦ background in a room ♦ background information ♦ background knowledge ♦ background level ♦ background luminance ♦ background music ♦ background noise ♦ background processing ♦ background programme ♦ background radiation ♦ background replace ♦ background session ♦ background shading ♦ background signal ♦ background sound ♦ background story ♦ blend into the background ♦ clean background ♦ constant background music ♦ deep background ♦ deep background information ♦ educational background ♦ family background ♦ home background ♦ in the background ♦ keep in the background ♦ occupational background ♦ patterned background ♦ screen background ♦ stay in the background ♦ to keep in the background ♦ to place in the background. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "background": background-color, background-foreground, background-pattern-pattern-background. | |
Ending with "background": background-pattern-pattern-background, dark-background, home-background. | |
| 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"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agtergrond (bottom, foundation, ground). (various references) | |
Albanian | sfond (back, backdrop, counterpoint, ground, groundwork, setting), prapaskenë (wing, wings), mjedis shoqëror, mjedis (ambience, climate, environment, location, medium, milieu, setting, surroundings), kualifikim (qualification, qualifications, training), hije (apparition, cloud, color, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), formim kulturor, errësirë (blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining), dokumentacion. (various references) | |
Arabic | خلفية الصورة, الخلفية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | среда (ambience, circle, core, entourage, mean, medium, middle, setting, sphere, surroundings), фон (distance, field, foil, ground), квалификация (efficiency, experience, qualification, timber, training), окръжение (environment), опитност (experience, proficiency), музикален съпровод, заден план, биографични данни, произход (beginning, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, filiation, fountain, genesis, line, mint, nativity, origin, origination, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, rise, stock). (various references) | |
Catalan | fons. (various references) | |
Chinese | 背景 (backdrop). (various references) | |
Czech | pozadí (backdrop, ground, rear), kádrový profil, hudební (music box, musical). (various references) | |
Danish | bundmoenster, baggrund (underground), lysniveau uden billedmodulation. (various references) | |
Dutch | achtergrond (bottom, foundation, ground). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malantaŭplano, fono. (various references) | |
Faeroese | botnur (bottom, foundation, ground, soil), baksýni (bottom, foundation, ground). (various references) | |
Farsi | نهانگاه (Cache, Hideaway), سابقه (Acquaintance, Antecedent, History, Intellect, Precedence, Prehistory, Record, Scape, Shaft), زمینه (Base, Basis, Conspectus, Context, Design, Ground, Groundwork, Outline, Root, Sketch, Tendency, Terrain, Theme). (various references) | |
Finnish | tausta (underground). (various references) | |
French | fond (back), arrière-plan (back-end). (various references) | |
Frisian | eftergrûn. (various references) | |
German | Hintergrund (back, backcloth, backdrop, foil, frame, ground), fond (back, foundation, rear). (various references) | |
Greek | φόντο (backdrop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יצע, רקע (foundation, milieu, setting, situation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | háttér (backdrop, field, to serve as offset to sy's beauty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | latar belakang (backdrop), dasar (basis, bed, bottom, elementary, foundation, nature, principle, rudiment). (various references) | |
Italian | sfondo (back, backcloth, ground, setting), fondo (back, bed, bottom, deep, depth, dregs, end, estate, floor, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole), sottofondo (backing, substratum). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 身許 (ID, past, person's identity), 身元 (ID, past, person's identity), 背景 (circumstance, scenery, setting), 背後関係 , 裏面 (back, inside, other side, reverse, tails), 遠景 (distant view, perspective, vista), 素姓 (birth, identity, lineage, parentage), 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 music, 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), 書き割り (backdrop, setting), 後景 (setting), 履歴 (career, log, personal history). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すじょう (birth, history, identity, lineage, origin, parentage), バックグラウンド , かきわり (backdrop, setting), こうけい (aperture, bore, calibre, ecliptic longitude, filial piety, scene, setting, spectacle, successor, the essential point), りれき (career, log, personal history), りめん (back, inside, other side, reverse, tails), みもと (ID, past, person's identity), はいごかんけい, はいけい (circumstance, Dear, scenery, setting), えんけい (circle, circular form, distant view, perspective, round shape, vista). (various references) | |
Korean | 환경 (environment, environmental). (various references) | |
Manx | shaghadys, cooyl-ynnyd, cooylrey (groundwork). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bakgrunn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackgroundbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fundo (back, bottom, deep, depth, floor, foundation, fund, gist, ground, grounding, groundwork, milieu, profound, rock bottom, sole, sunken, undercurrent). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecut (antecedent, bygone, departed, foretime, former, last, past), loc retras (corner, privacy, retired spot, retirement, secluded spot, seclusion, snug), fundal (back-cloth), fund (back, bottom, buttocks, crown, depth, end, floor, ground, head, rear, seat, sole), fond (bottom, content, elements, essence, field, fund, gist, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, spine, staple, stock, substance, sum, supply), décor (décor, decoration, embellishment, landscape, mise en scene, ornament, scene, scenery, sets), condiţii (term), autobiografie (autobiography). (various references) | |
Russian | фон (backdrop, context, foil, ground-colour). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pozadina (back, backdrop, posteriority, rear, rear area). (various references) | |
Spanish | fondo (back, backdrop, bottom, deep, depth, floor, fund, ground, long distance, rock bottom, seat, term), segundo plano, antecedentes (antecedents, backgrounds, past, record). (various references) | |
Swedish | bakgrund (backcloth, backdrop, setting). (various references) | |
Turkish | zemin (backcloth, backdrop, bed, floor, ground, ground-, groundwork, level, stage), sosyal çevre, geri plân (distances, rear), geçmiş deneyimler, geçmiş (antecedents, belated, bygone, case history, departed, former, gone, history, lang syne, passe, passee, past, previous, standing, yesterdays), fon (fund, ground color, ground colour, groundwork, phon, pool, reserve), arka plân (back seat, distances, frame), özgeçmiş (autobiography, curriculum vitae, profile, resume). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фон (champ, fond, groundwork, tint), кваліфікація (qualification), освіта (education, enlightenment, schooling), обстановка (air, ambience, appointments, atmosphere, circumstance, furnishings, milieu, scenery), непомітне становище, музичний супровід, заднній план, підготовка (preparation, preparative, training), підоснова, передумова (precondition, prerequisite). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | radiô nhạc nền tránh mặt, quá trình học hành, quá trình đào tạo, phía sau nền tình trạng không có tên tuổi, địa vị không quan trọng kiến thức. (various references) | |
Welsh | cefndir. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "background": backgrounded, backgrounder, backgrounders, backgrounding, backgrounds. (additional references) | |
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"Background" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backgropund, backgroun, backround, buskaround. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "background" (pronounced ba"kgrou'nd) |
| 5 | -g r ou' n d | battleground, campground, fairground, foreground, playground, underground. |
| 4 | -r ou' n d | runaround. |
| 3 | -ou' n d | earthbound, eastbound, foxhound, greyhound, hidebound, homebound, horehound, outbound, snowbound, southbound, spellbound, turnaround, westbound. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-g-k-n-o-r-u" | |
-3 letters: aground, burdock, candour, runback. | |
-4 letters: abound, around, bandog, barong, bonduc, brogan, buckra, candor, carbon, corban, cornua, cougar, dorbug, dragon, garcon, ground, koruna, kurgan, ourang, roband, uncork, undock. | |
-5 letters: acorn, adorn, adunc, argon, bacon, banco, baron, board, bogan, bound, bourg, bourn, brand, brank, broad, brock, bronc, bucko, bunco, bunko, buran, carbo, cargo, carob, cobra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-g-k-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: backgrounds. | |
+2 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder. | |
+3 letters: backgrounders, backgrounding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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