backgrounds

Noun

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
• the state of the environment in which a situation exists
• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
• scenery hung at back of stage
• plural of background

Verb

• understate the importance or quality of
• third-person singular simple present indicative of background

Synonyms

backcloth, backdrop, background, background knowledge, background signal, desktop, downplay, ground, play down, scope, screen background, setting

Antonyms

foreground, play up