Background is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACKGROUND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to provide with background
• form a background to
• understate the importance or quality of
• provide with background
NOUN:
• the part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer
• a less important or conspicuous position or function
• used in reference to tasks or processes that do not need input from the user
• low-intensity radiation from radioisotopes present in the natural environment.
• unwanted signals, such as noise in the reception or recording of sound.
• the circumstances or situation prevailing at a particular time or underlying a particular event
• Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
• The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
• Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
• A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
• 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
• a person's education, experience, and social circumstances
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the scenery or ground behind something; the part of a painting representing what lies behind objects in the foreground

Words related to BACKGROUND

backgrounded23 backgrounder22 backgrounders23 backgrounding24 backgrounds21

Words that contain BACKGROUND

backgrounds21 backgrounded23 backgrounder22 backgrounders23 backgrounding24

How to use BACKGROUND in a sentence

• As for technicalities, where are they in the schools of to- day? As far in the background as the teachers can keep them.
• Yet here they had a background that would lend beauty to any color placed upon it.
• The edges are, as it were, too much softened off into the background.
• And then she thought of their love, which had been born and had grown, always with war at its background.
• There were strange irregular splashes of pink in the hide, standing out in bright contrast with the neutral background.
• It is a strong background against which to set what follows and give colour by contrast to her later life.
• He had sworn that he would never think of Brackenhill, yet without his knowledge it had been the background to his thoughts of everything.
• They could return to their ancient job of humble service, and resume their familiar location in the background.
• But it made an extraordinarily impressive background or frame for a lovely woman, and Marie Della Robbia was a lovely woman.
• The small bare room with its plain desk and two or three chairs made a bleak background for the neat figure of the man.
• On my return, they were just grazing out from the river, their front a mile wide, making a pretty picture with the Yellowstone in the background.
• In the background of the stage there should be erected a platform, from which a flight of steps extends down to the foreground.
• But when the struggle closes, both religion, its cause, and the great noble its supporter, sink somewhat into the background, while the king, the kingly power, fills the eye.
• She saw forms, she said, like myriads of tiny shapes, like sparks on a dazzling background.
• It represents three female figures against a landscape background.
• And George, in the background of his mind, which was obsessed by the tormenting enigma of the girl by his side, also threatened the city.
• The dark background of its past is haunted by the shadows of the unknown race who built its ruined cities and temples.
• They passed through the gate, and walked rapidly in the direction of the Washington monument, which lifted a splendid silhouette against a deep blue background of sky.
• Against the dusky-white background of snow, he could make out an indistinct, irregular, undulating line of moving dark objects.

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