background
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
he is a lawyer with a sports background
Types & categories
- heritage hypernym
Sense 2 verb
understate the importance or quality of
he played down his royal ancestry
Types & categories
- accent hypernym
- wave off hyponym
- soft-pedal hyponym
Related & opposite
- foreground antonym
- background derivation
Sense 3 noun
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
he posed her against a background of rolling hills
Types & categories
- panorama hypernym
Sense 4 noun
information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
Types & categories
- information hypernym
Related & opposite
- backgrounder derivation
Sense 5 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
Types & categories
- interference hypernym
- background noise hyponym
- background radiation hyponym
Sense 6 noun
relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
Types & categories
- accompaniment hypernym
Related & opposite
- background derivation
Sense 7 noun
the state of the environment in which a situation exists
you can't do that in a university setting
Types & categories
- environment hypernym
- canvass hyponym
- showcase hyponym
Related & opposite
- scopal derivation
Sense 8 noun
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
Types & categories
- CRT screen hypernym
Related & opposite
- computing domain topic
Sense 9 noun
scenery hung at back of stage
Types & categories
- scenery hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | heritage |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | foreground |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | background |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | accent |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | wave off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | soft-pedal |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | panorama |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | backgrounder |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | information |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | interference |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | background noise |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | background radiation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | background |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | accompaniment |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | scopal |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | environment |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | canvass |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | showcase |
| 8 | domain topic | Related & opposite | computing |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | CRT screen |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | scenery |