en background

An English term in ConceptNet 5.8

Sources: Open Mind Common Sense contributors, English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary, and Open Multilingual WordNet
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Synonyms

  • ar خَلًفِيَّة (n, cognition) ➜
  • ar قَلَّلَ (v, change) ➜
  • ar قَلَّلَ مِن (v, change) ➜
  • ca acomodar (v, change) ➜
  • ca fons (n, cognition) ➜
  • ca fons de pantalla (n, computer_science) ➜
  • ca mimetitzar (v, change) ➜
  • ca segon pla (n, cognition) ➜
  • da baggrund (n, attribute) ➜
  • da baggrund (n, cognition) ➜
  • en backdrop (n, artifact) ➜
  • en setting (n, state) ➜
  • en background knowledge (n, cognition) ➜
  • en background signal (n, event) ➜
  • en desktop (n, computer_science) ➜
  • en downplay (v, change) ➜
  • en ground (n, cognition) ➜
  • en play down (v, change) ➜
  • en screen background (n, computer_science) ➜
  • es acomodar (v, change) ➜
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Related terms

  • sh pozadina (n) ➜
  • sh predznanje (n) ➜
  • ar أرضية (n) ➜
  • ast segundu planu (n) ➜
  • ba милләт (n) ➜
  • bg данни (n) ➜
  • bg опит (n) ➜
  • ca rerefons (n) ➜
  • ca terme (n) ➜
  • ceb gang (n) ➜
  • cs kulisa (n) ➜
  • cs pozadí (n) ➜
  • cs svůj k svému ➜
  • da baggrundsstof (n) ➜
  • da miljø (n) ➜
  • de feld (n) ➜
  • de fond (n) ➜
  • de hintergrund (n) ➜
  • de milieu (n) ➜
  • de vorgeschichte (n) ➜
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background is a type of…

  • en inheritance (n, attribute) ➜
  • en information (n, cognition) ➜
  • en view (n, cognition) ➜
  • en screen (n, artifact) ➜
  • en accompaniment (n, event) ➜
  • en noise (n, event) ➜

Derived terms

  • en background check ➜
  • en background fodder ➜
  • en background investigation ➜
  • en background process ➜
  • en backgrounder ➜
  • en extragalactic background light ➜
  • en headground ➜
  • en multibackground ➜
  • en on background ➜
  • en superbackground ➜

Word forms

  • en backgrounded (v) ➜
  • en backgrounding (v) ➜
  • en backgrounds (n) ➜
  • en backgrounds (v) ➜
  • en backround (n) ➜

Types of background

  • en background noise (n, event) ➜
  • en background radiation (n, event) ➜

Ways of background

  • en soft-pedal (v, communication) ➜
  • en wave off (v, change) ➜

Context of this term

  • en computer science (n, computer) ➜
  • en computing ➜
  • en journalism ➜

Antonyms

  • en prominent ➜
  • fr foreground ➜

Derived from

  • en back ➜
  • en ground ➜

background is a way of…

  • en stress (v, communication) ➜

Etymologically derived terms

  • ru бэкграунд ➜

Things that require background

  • en reading the news ➜

Etymologically related

  • en background processing ➜
  • sv bakgrund ➜

Links to other resources

  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 104928594-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 105831841-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 105942570-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 102772080-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 107299896-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 107445080-n
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 200514573-v
  • en.wiktionary.org background
  • fr.wiktionary.org background
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