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Meaning of background

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  background
      n 1: 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" [syn: {background}, {ground}]
      3: information that is essential to understanding a situation or
         problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the
         incident" [syn: {background}, {background knowledge}]
      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"
         [syn: {background}, {background signal}]
      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" [syn: {setting},
         {background}, {scope}]
      7: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user
         interfaces against which icons and windows appear [syn:
         {background}, {desktop}, {screen background}]
      8: scenery hung at back of stage [syn: {backdrop}, {background},
         {backcloth}]
      v 1: understate the importance or quality of; "he played down
           his royal ancestry" [syn: {background}, {play down},
           {downplay}] [ant: {foreground}, {highlight}, {play up},
           {spotlight}]

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