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(verb) move into the background; "he played down his royla ancestry" |
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Synonyms: play down |
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Related Words: accent, accentuate, bring out, emphasize, set off, stress, wave off |
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Antonyms: foreground |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
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Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
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Related Words: CRT screen, screen |
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(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background" |
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Related Words: heritage, inheritance |
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(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident" |
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Synonyms: background knowledge |
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Related Words: information |
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(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hillls" |
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Synonyms: ground |
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Related Words: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
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(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background" |
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Related Words: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: background signal |
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Related Words: background noise, background radiation, disturbance, ground noise, interference, noise |
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(noun) scenery hung at back of stage |
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Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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Related Words: scene, scenery |
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(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting" |
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Synonyms: scope, setting |
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Related Words: canvas, canvass, environment, show window, showcase |
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