Word Finder - background

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One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

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The lawyer had a background in computer science.

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A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.

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Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.

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A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).

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The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait.

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The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).

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A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.

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The antivirus program is running in the background.

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To put in a position that is not prominent.

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To gather and provide background information (on).

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Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

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The antivirus program runs on a background thread.

I saved it as the background on the iPad.

In the background were the beautiful layered mountains of the White Rock Wildlife Management.

But by keeping in the background and giving public opinion time to forget his past, as well as by parliamentary intrigue, he gradually regained much of his former influence.

He was not only the oldest native dramatist, but the first author of an epic poem (Bellum Punicum) - which, by combining the representation of actual contemporary history with a mythical background, may be said to have created the Roman type of epic poetry.

The visions were less invasive than those from others, like background music at a department store.

The frieze consisted of white marble figures in relief, affixed to a background of black Eleusinian stone.

He had the background and the education, but he obviously didn't have the inclination to adjust to the one being forced on him.

I'm sure Brennen was confused by my sharp response and background noise but once girls and dog had left we settled down to business.

I could hear other people in the background.

It stood picturesquely against a timbered background of pines.

There is something chameleon-like in its appearances; its genuine views are kept in the background from tactical considerations, and first one aspect, then another, comes into prominence.

The town slopes to the ocean, with a background of forest surmounted by the snow-clad volcanic cone of Mount Egmont (8270 ft.).

Instead of war in his background, there was peacemaking and diplomacy from the beginning.

For the next four years he kept studiously in the background, waiting his time.

There is absolutely no historical background for his legend.

No use was made of American military force save as a passive background to the government.

The historical background is the raids of the Teutonic maritime tribes on the coasts of England and Ireland.

While her writing demonstrates education, most likely her background ill equipped her for the practical realities of the real world.

I could hear the baby crying the background.

There was a noise in the background.

But the more serious difficulties which to many minds still stand in the way of the acceptance of the epistle have come from the developed phase of Pauline theology which it shows, and from the general background and atmosphere of the underlying system of thought, in which the absence of the well-known earlier controversies is remarkable, while some things suggest the thought of John and a later age.

It may be said generally that Catharism formed the abiding background of medieval heresy.

Their issues faded into the background as they began preparing the house for the new babies.

Can you run a background check on her now that we have a last name?

On the north, west and south it is surrounded by hills, with a background of mountains amongst which the Puy-de-Dome stands out prominently.

In the background she heard Alex ask him who he was talking to.

Then a woman in the background said something about them all moving to this keen town and the woman on the phone laughed, like it was a joke.

Her radio crackled in the background.

In the book of Zechariah Zerubbabel has already fallen into the background and the high priest is the leading figure of the Judean community.

Henceforward she remained in the background, leaving her eldest son Henry to pursue the struggle with Stephen.

The first class exhibits black figures on a reddish background, the second red figures on a black ground.

Again, can we substitute church authority for that which is always the background of " dogma " as interpreted from inside - divine authority?

The room, in near total darkness, held a barely audible hum for background music.

Then, she heard the cry of an infant in the background.

I could hear confusion and hurried voices in the background and someone yelled, 'they're here, come on'.

She'd thought him cold and distant at first, until she learned his background.

She heard him typing in the background.

The decisive considerations for the determination of the date are the language, the historical background and the thought.

But the sultan could not bend his pride to suffer foreign intervention in a matter that touched his honour, and the return of Napoleon from Elba threw the Eastern Question into the background.

It completely dominates the city's background, and is a well-known sailors' landmark.

The front of the palace forms the background to the public memorial to Queen Victoria, at the head of the Mall.

The first term of the course is largely devoted to ensuring that all students possess adequate background knowledge of computing techniques and programming practice.

So deciding whether a complex causal chain is consistent with background knowledge would require a process akin to parsing.

Background The laboratory has previously identified a pathway by which infected human macrophages are induced to kill intracellular mycobacteria rapidly.

They gleaned from her story that, as suspected, she came from a moneyed background.

Corday just shrugged and began asking questions about Dean's background.

Errol Garner was playing in the background.

She turned on the device and waited, uttering a cry of dismay when she saw the background.

Who can say what may emerge from an infinite background ?

But there were more serious differences in the background.