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Noun
- scenery hung at back of stage
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- you can't do that in a university setting
- relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
- when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
- 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
- information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
- the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- he posed her against a background of rolling hills
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- he is a lawyer with a sports background
Verb
- understate the importance or quality of
- he played down his royal ancestry