background

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Editorial note

No crons or background services -- what the fuck?

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Quick take

a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of background gathered in one view.

noun

a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

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the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

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information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for background.

noun

a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

noun

the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

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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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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relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

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the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"

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(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

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scenery hung at back of stage

verb

understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

Example sentences

No crons or background services -- what the fuck?

[Update:] So, the background here is that 1099 reporting rules changed last year.

As I was scrolling through I started to notice a really nice, subtle star background pattern that wasn't moving.

One of their own who passed the background check by the way--I don't know why the OP is so enamored with the polygraph.

I'm just going to imagine that he's running in the background with no terminal attached.

Sure, they are patenting taking a picture against a white background when perpendicular against a... Who gives a fuck.

I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.

It doesn't have to hold you back - your attitude has to convince a potential employer that your background makes you a great candidate, not a worse one.

HR scheduled a meeting 30 minutes in the future on my calendar, then informed me that my employment had been terminated because of the issue in my background.

Nelson came from a movie acting/storywriting/literary background, and this allowed him to establish parallels and formulate ideas that no one at the time could have done.

We become intimately familiar with his three-year-old daughter's escapades with Cheerios and love of Phineas & Ferb.- Judging from the number of sirens, Jake apparently lives in a bad part of town or is watching Blues Brothers in the background.- Lucy has apparently joined while sitting in a conference room, attending another meeting simultaneously.- Robert joins 15 minutes late and would like everything he missed to be recapped.- Mark absolutely will not let the meeting progress unless someone is recording.